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...humanizes its hero mostly by picturing him as an introvert who always wanted, deep down, to be liked by the crowd, despite the emotionless surface he displays as a grim perfectionist on the links. This view of Hogan, which seems somewhat romanticized, pays off with an extra dividend of surefire appeal: the golfer's realization, as messages of sympathy and encouragement pour into the hospital, that people really care...
Father's Little Dividend (MGM) repeats the formula of last year's highly successful Father of the Bride, with the same principals, scripters and director. Unlike most sequels, it should also repeat the original's success...
...policies; it was wasteful, said Randolph, to keep two sets of books, hold separate meetings, etc. Randolph had long wanted to merge the two; at last the time seemed ripe. To stockholders went a complicated plan for a stock swap. Part of Randolph's bait was an $8.70 dividend on one class of Selected Industries stock (the convertible) should the merger be approved...
...knew just what it was all about-but Broker Arthur Wiesenberger thought he did, and he didn't like it. A specialist in investment trusts and a big stockholder in Selected himself Wiesenberger complained that under the merger, Selected common stock-holders would be 1) surrendering $1730 m dividend arrears for a mere $8 70 payoff; 2) swapping 76% voting control for 2% in the merged company; 3) missine out on a fat batch of capital gains that were not reflected by the market price of Selected. Wiesenberger began urging proxy holders to defeat the merger...
...risen from section hand to president in 36 years with the Erie, bought new diesels for fast freight, streamlined the Erie's creaky business methods, cleared $21.8 million in 1941. The next year, Erie directors cheerfully announced that "icicles have sprouted in hell." They paid a 50? common dividend, their first in 69 years. Dividends have been declared every year since (1950's payment: $1.75 a share...