Ted Turner, World Savior

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Explaining he’d been at a meeting “trying to save the world,” Shoptalk tablemate Ted Turner was a few minutes late for Time’s Person of the Year confab at the Four Seasons in New York last week, where advertisers, agency execs and media lumi naries got a first-time peek at the annual debate among the editors.

The 1991 Man of the Year was in fine form over lunch, recounting tales of his political ambi tions and war stories about his feuds with Rupert Murdoch.

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