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...Cosby's TV career took a long time to recover. He starred as a high school gym teacher in The Bill Cosby Show, an engaging series that was nevertheless canceled after two seasons. A comedy-variety series called The New Bill Cosby Show lasted only one; another effort, Cos, failed in less than two months. Cosby landed a few movie roles in such films as Uptown Saturday Night, California Suite and Hickey and Boggs (a rare and surprisingly effective dramatic performance). But his film career failed to ignite. Cosby refuses to characterize the time as a career slump but admits...
Make a bid, get rejected, collect millions. The strategy can work wonders. Less than two years ago, Santa Monica, Calif.-based Wickes Cos., a home- improvement and consumer-products firm, emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and launched a series of takeover bids. Last week Chairman Sanford Sigoloff announced Wickes' latest coup: a $30 million profit on the sale of stock and options it accumulated in a $2.2 billion takeover try for Toledo- based Owens-Corning Fiberglas...
February 4: A disciplinary meeting of the Dartmouth Committee on Standards (COS) meets for 11 hours without reaching a verdict on the shanty vandals...
Only three years ago, Wickes Cos., a diversified Los Angeles-based retailer, was nearly broke. Last week the revived firm was suddenly a big spender. Wickes, which emerged from 33 months of bankruptcy-law proceedings in January, agreed to pay $1 billion in cash for the consumer- and industrial-products groups of Gulf & Western Industries. Included in the sale are the units that manufacture Burlington hosiery, Simmons mattresses and some clothing that is licensed to carry the Calvin Klein and Liz Claiborne designer labels. The acquisition will nearly double Wickes' annual sales, to about $6 billion...
...Dallas stockbroker, received the same sentence. Both men had pleaded guilty last March to charges that they had obstructed justice by lying to Securities and Exchange Commission officials who were investigating whether Thayer, then the chairman of LTV Corp. and a director of Allied Corp. and Anheuser-Busch Cos., had passed inside information to Harris and others about future mergers and acquisitions...