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...FOOL ALL OF THE PEOPLE ALL THE TIME by Art Buchwald Putnam; 332 pages...
...wrote Humorist Art Buchwald 19 years ago, during the last big wave of corporate mergers. These days the prospect that he wryly foresaw seems considerably less farfetched. In recent months such household names as ABC, TWA and Nabisco have agreed to sell out to other firms and cease to be independent enterprises. They will follow Bendix, Gulf Oil, Conoco and other giants that have already surrendered their separate identities. Since 1980, no fewer than 62 members of the FORTUNE 500 list of industrial behemoths have been swallowed by other companies...
WATCH OUT, ART BUCHWALD...
...that in legal papers filed in early stages of GoTo's lawsuit, Disney named Eisner a "Person most knowledgeable" on how the image was selected. "They've offered us [a settlement] in the millions. We turned them down," says O'Donnell, who has won rights cases against Paramount (ART BUCHWALD's Coming to America suit) and Sony (which threatened MGM's Bond monopoly). "They keep offering more, and we keep saying no. This is a very, very serious lawsuit." Disney declined to comment...
...Brokaw's parade is a little heavy on big-shot veterans like former Secretary of Defense Casper Weinberger and Washington lawyer Lloyd Cutler. They tend to upstage the little-known people who are the subjects of Brokaw's strongest feelings. Still, who would not want to know that Art Buchwald was a bumbling Marine who failed to get a laugh when he dropped a bomb he was loading onto a Corsair? Or that 6-ft. 2-in. Julia Child served with the OSS in India after the WAVES rejected her because she was too tall...