The Robert M. Bass Group began a...

The Robert M. Bass Group began a sweetened, $1.9-billion tender offer for New York-based Macmillan Inc. just days after winning a court victory against the publisher’s reorganization plan. The Texas-based group said it will pay $75 a share in cash for the Macmillan shares it does not already own. Bass controls about 9.9% of the publisher’s 25.9 million outstanding common shares. A Macmillan spokeswoman said the company had no comment on the tender offer.