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Within a year Peter's father had remarried. His new bride, Nancy, was an accountant, and she helped clear up some of her husband's heavy debts. Six years later she had a son of her own, whom she seemed to favor. Some friends now believe this was the seed of Ueberroth's drive to achieve, the deep need to gain approval from his new mother. The family moved often, and young Pete had to adjust to a variety of schools and neighborhoods, from Iowa to Pennsylvania to Wisconsin and finally to Northern California, in the town of Burlingame...
...Prince, impatient to meet his wife of twenty years, disguises himself as a new undergraduate and invades Castle Adamant to claim his bride. But his suit is unsuccessful, and his father (Douglas Freeman) ends up bombarding the castle; the maidens recoil at the thought of blood and violence, and Prince Hilarion gallantly proposes (over the hisses of the audience), "Woman has failed...
...Ziff publications (Backpacker, Boating, Car and Driver, Cycle, Flying, Modern Bride, Popular Photography, Skiing, Skiing Trade News, Stereo Review, The Runner and Yachting) are a windfall. In one stroke, CBS added a dozen established moneymakers with a combined circulation of an estimated 4.7 million to its publishing operation. The company already owned eleven titles, including the Sunday newspaper supplement Family Weekly (circ. 13 million), Woman's Day (circ. 6.9 million), Field & Stream (circ. 2 million) and Mechanix Illustrated (circ. 1.6 million). Ziff called CBS "a great new home" for his magazines. A delighted CBS Chairman Thomas Wyman, who helped...
...clothing manufacturer, Tartikoff grew up on Long Island, where he used to stay home from school to watch sitcoms like December Bride and My Little Margie. He foresaw his calling on a Sunday night in 1959, when he sat cross-legged in front of the family set to watch the premiere episode of Dennis the Menace. "After it was over," Tartikoff recalls, "I turned to my parents and said, 'They could have made that show much better...
...went on, fascinating us all, with stories of his Hollywood days. He spoke of how he did not like the heaving and panting sex in the new movies-too explicit. He preferred the way Ernst Lubitsch had handled the subject, by hint and suggestion-the hand of a bride dropping her nightgown outside the bridal-chamber door, then the door closing, leaving the rest to imagination. This conversation seemed pure entertainment. But Ceylon was important: it holds the harbor of Trincomalee that we want to use in case of war. Madame Jayewardene left, swathed in a friendship that might...