Word: arnolds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
While CBS was moving from the ballpark to meet rival NBC at the bookshelf, NBC itself was getting more involved with sports. Last week NBC President Julian Goodman in Manhattan and Golfer Arnold Palmer in Miami (he was there for the $100,000 Doral Open) let it be known that the network would buy five of Arnie's eight companies, including the multifarious Arnold Palmer Enterprises, Inc., of which he now owns 60%. NBC will also sign on President Palmer himself as an NBC sportscaster...
What NBC will pay for all this-and for exclusive rights to Arnie's personal TV and radio appearances-is still being worked out. He is supposed to continue to manage Arnold Palmer Enterprises and the other companies. Actually, Palmer is concentrating on his golf card this year (and has so far won the $100,000 Los Angeles Open and the $60,000 Tucson Open), will probably leave the ledgers as usual to his business manager and No. 2 stockholder, Attorney Mark H. McCormack. Whatever the terms of the deal, they should ease Palmer's perennial if improbable...
...much chance of that. Beyond the businesses that will go to NBC, Arnie still has plenty of income-producing properties. Among them: Chattanooga's equipment-making Arnold Palmer Golf Co. and, not least, Arnie's own bag of clubs...
APPLESAUCE by June Arnold. 240 pages. McGraw-Hill...
...Jersey, seven of the U.S.'s largest companies had opted out of Fun City, as Mayor John Lindsay likes to call it, within a year. At week's end, pint-sized (250 employees) Bohn Business Machines announced that it would also quit Park Avenue for suburbia. President Arnold Perry blamed rising city taxes and sky-high commercial rents...