Bernie Marcus, Jane Elfers and Richard Baker.
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LIVE FEED: Thanks to LaVelle Olexa's ingenuity, Lord & Taylor's Fifth Avenue windows now have glimpses of the Atlanta Aquarium. And Wednesday night, no one was more eager to see the video footage of fish swimming across plasma screens than the aquarium's benefactor Bernie Marcus, who donated $200 million for Georgia's newest tourist attraction. Lord & Taylor's Jane Elfers and NRDC's Richard Baker welcomed Marcus to Manhattan by hosting a dinner in his honor at Del Posto. Before Mario Batali's culinary creations were served, Harold Koda, Nicole Miller, Bud Konheim, Yeohlee Teng and other guests learned a little about Marcus, who cofounded another Atlanta institution — Home Depot. "I'm a pharmacist [by training]. If I had been a doctor, I could have been something," he said.
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