Word: commercialist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week the old culturist and the old commercialist got together. Norton Simon Inc. announced that it had agreed to acquire Susskind's Manhat tan-based Talent Associates Ltd. as a wholly owned subsidiary. Although Si mon remains his conglomerate's biggest stockholder, he has left its active man agement largely to Chairman William E. McKenna, who engineered the Tal ent Associates acquisition as a way of expanding his firm's activities in the communications field. Through McCall Corp., Norton Simon Inc. already pub lishes McC all's magazine (circ. 8,500,000). McKenna looks...
...Hollywood sale. But Wallace insists that sincerity was the mark of his bedside manner. He says that he recoils when people stare at him as if they saw on his face "the leer of a sex-mad ogre, and worse, far worse, the bloated, unnatural look of the crass commercialist." In his latest example of sincere sex, for which he has already received $320,000 from his publisher and MGM, Wallace has sportingly given himself a heavy handicap: his subject is the men and women who win the Nobel Prize, but Wallace's intellectual giants have feet of such...