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Enter NBC's second putative savior: Grant Tinker, former president of the MTM production shop (Mary Tyler Moore, Lou Grant, WKRP in Cincinnati, Hill Street Blues). Tinker had made his reputation at MTM as THE the velvet-gloved champion of creative personnel, but at NBC he was unable to stanch defections by Newsman David Brinkley (to ABC) and Sports Chief Don Ohlmeyer (to independent production). He did woo many of his old MTM employees to develop relatively sophisticated new series, like the sitcom Cheers and the hospital drama St. Elsewhere. With these shows NBC has asserted its image...
Procter & Gamble Co. of Cincinnati, the household-products giant (1982 sales: $12 billion), approaches every new venture as if it were a military campaign. First comes reconnaissance. Then a few carefully selected sorties. Finally a full-scale assault on the target market...
Many of those cookies may be washed down with P & G soft drinks. In 1980 the Cincinnati company bought the firm that makes Orange Crush and Hires Root Beer, and some industry watchers predicted that it was only a matter of time before P & G came out with a cola drink. Reason: colas account for about 62% of all soft-drink sales, and the conventional wisdom is that a company without a cola cannot make big money in soda...
Charlotte Lanzit Cincinnati...
Part of Walsh's weariness has to do with calling essentially all of the plays in some 260 games since 1969 for the Cincinnati Bengals, San Diego Chargers, Stanford University and the 49ers. Seasons can get away from a football coach. "The changing trees, the colors in the fields, amazed him," Carol Vermeil said of her husband's simple wonder during the eight-week strike. "You know, I think that he thought all fields were green with white stripes on them." And so can years get away. "How does an eleven-year-old qualify for a driver...