Laurence Alan Tisch has never been one to run with any pack. At the age of 15, while his cronies were playing stickball in Manhattan playgrounds, Tisch was a student at New York University. At Harvard Law School in 1946, he seemed to have a bright future, but then he dropped out. Some 40 years later, having become a tycoon while keeping a low profile, Tisch, 63, has suddenly thrust himself into an unfamiliar spotlight at the helm of CBS, one of America's best-known corporations.
The head of the $17.5 billion Loews corporate empire is often surprising but rarely anything less...
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