According to a CNN report one of the two women making
history at the prestigious Augusta National Golf Club is a former U.S.
secretary of state. The other, Darla Moore, is a former banking magnate and, by
all accounts, a force to be reckoned with.
Moore -- who, along with Condoleezza Rice, has been admitted
as a member of the previously all-male club -- once graced the cover of Fortune
alongside the words, "The Toughest Babe in Business."
"To get a picture of Darla Moore, imagine, say, a cross
between the Terminator and Kim Basinger," the 1997 profile read. Her friend and admirer Martha Stewart
described Moore, who hails from South Carolina, as "a cutthroat killer
underneath."
When she married Richard Rainwater, one of the country's top
investors, she was already the highest-paid woman in banking. She went on to
nearly triple her husband's net worth, the article said. Moore took on two fellow magnates and won. She
"booted" T. Boone Pickens from Mesa, the oil and gas company he
founded. And she forced Rick Scott out at Columbia/HCA "after the health
care giant got slammed with a massive criminal investigation," the article
said. Scott is now governor of Florida.
"I've harassed guys all my life," Fortune quotes
her as saying….
Read all about it at http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/20/us/augusta-darla-moore/index.html
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