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...tough-talking Washington law partner of onetime U.S. Senators Millard Tydings and James Duff, Landa has been a key figure in the proxy battles for many top companies, e.g., Fruehauf Trailer, and the current dispute over S. H. Kress. Late in 1956, Landa joined in the Penn-Texas fight along with Robert Morse Jr., whose Fairbanks, Morse & Co. was threatened by a Silberstein takeover. With Morse bankrolling the fight, Landa led last year's Penn-Texas proxy crusade that elected two anti-Silberstein directors. Landa was also a key man in forcing last November's shake-up that...
...Start. In London, the New Statesman & Nation printed an ad: "Feeling fogbound? Stand at your window with a glass of Duff Gordon's El Cid Sherry. Watch the mist turn rosy...
...McClellan committee plans to gear itself for Teamsters' President Dave Beck. Last week, at home in Seattle, Beck said he would decide whether or not to turn over his financial records to the committee after consulting with his newly retained lawyer: Pennsylvania's ex-Republican Senator James Duff.* But Committee Chairman John McClellan was having none of that. Beck, he said, must give the committee his records by this week or have them subpoenaed...
...simon-simple situations and zam-powie slapstick. Two new series made the point last week. Blondie (NBC, Fri. 8 p.m., E.S.T.) carried its own comic-strip pedigree. Mr. Adams and Eve (CBS, Fri. 9 p.m., E.S.T.) offered husband-and-wife Hollywood stars playing husband-and-wife Hollywood stars. Howard Duff as a vain boob, Ida Lupino as the archetypically wise better-half. Except for wife Lupino's acerbic way with a line, it never got off the comic page...
...Adams and Eve (Fri. 9 p.m., CBS). New comedy series, with Ida Lupino, Howard Duff...