Chapter 16Don Mathers spent the next weeks, the next months, in what was seemingly a chaos of interviews, speeches and press releases, though many of the last he never saw. The efficient Si Mullens turned them out wholesale, and was more apt to check them, before release, with Demming or Rostoff rather than Don.
Actually, Rostoff and Demming remained in the background. They never allowed themselves to be seen in Don’s company in public, or even when news people were around. They went to considerable effort and expense to suppress any news stories about their being affiliated with the corporation. It wasn’t as hard as all that to do. Between the two of them, they had large financial interests in most of the important media. Those news outlets which they didn’t personally control, largely b
