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...nation's two big bowling manufacturers seem to get along about as well as two tomcats in an alley. "Competition is vigorous and unimpeded," says Brunswick Corp. President Benjamin E. Bensinger, 56. Says his archrival, American Machine & Foundry Co. Chairman Morehead Patterson, 64: "Competition has been fierce and sanguinary." Thus it came as a surprise last week when Bobby Kennedy's Justice Department filed an antitrust suit against the two in a Manhattan federal court. The charge: that AMF and Brunswick had conspired with each other, and with the Bowling Proprietors' Association of America, to restrain trade...
...cried the manufacturers. Both granted that they do turn down orders, but only for sound business reasons, and both denied any conspiracy. Since Brunswick sells most of its equipment on credit, aggressive "Ted" Bensinger insists that the company has the right "before accepting any order to make sure a proposed bowling center can be operated profitably." Soft-spoken Morehead Patterson, whose AMF generally leases its pin spotters for a percentage of the income, also concedes that AMF turns away poor business risks. "We want our proprietors to make money," he says. "If they don't, then...
...many bowling centers have been started that Brunswick and AMF, which between them manufacture almost all of the nation's automatic pin setters, are now feeling the pinch. While the bowling boom of the late 1950s helped triple Brunswick's sales to $422.3 million in 1961, and helped double AMF's sales to $516.5 million, sales have fallen off this year. So has the value of their stocks, long favorites of Wall Street, which are now down to less than one-third of their 1961 highs...
...Brunswick, N.J., Children's Summer Theater: Incredibly, a dramatic version of The Canterbury Tales-for the kiddies...
Jackie Gleason, the massive Minnesota Fats in The Hustler, once observed that poolrooms have a "dirty antiseptic look-spots on the floor, toilets stuffed up, but the tables brushed immaculately, like green jewels lying in the mud." The Brunswick Corp. of Chicago, largest commercial U.S. billiard equipment manufacturer, is determined to change all that, has produced some innovations aimed straight at Mom; e.g., tables have been contoured along Detroit lines with chrome doodads and two-tone coachwork. But the feature that will bring the loudest howls from Gleason and other reactionary cue sticklers is the new look of the table...