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MANNIX (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Mike Connors stars as Joe Mannix, member of a highly specialized private-detective firm called Intertect. Joe Campanella is Lou Wickersham, Intertect's boss. Premi...
...Graebner in last week's quarterfinals at Forest Hills, would sully themselves by associating with people who openly play for pay. Emerson himself commands $10,000 a year as a "public relations consultant" for Philip Morris, another $6,000 as a "racket consultant" for Slazengers' sporting-goods firm, plus an estimated $11,000 in tax-free "expenses," paid by tournament promoters. That's $27,000 a year-not bad for an amateur. Graebner, for instance, has to get by on $9,000 a year (his stipend as a member of the U.S. Davis Cup team...
Died. Harry Elmer Humphreys Jr., 66, president (1949-57) and chairman (1951-65) of Uniroyal Inc., formerly U.S. Rubber Co., third largest U.S. rubber producer, who rose from secretary of Christiana Securities, the Du Pont family holding company, to head the Du Pont-controlled rubber firm, where he overcame a late start in postwar expansion and more than doubled sales (to $1.2 billion) before retiring; of a heart ailment; in White Plains...
...Sheraton Hotels, world's largest chain; of a heart attack; in Boston. Sparely built and quiet, Henderson and his Harvarc roommate, Robert Moore, started oui in 1919 with a small import and radio business, then during the Depression gambled $10,000 to buy a faltering Boston investment firm; by taking advantage of low prices, they gobbled up properties that totaled $30 million by 1939-including Boston's Sheraton, which became the namesake of an evergrowing chain of businessmen-oriented hotels that today numbers 153 in the U.S. and abroad...
Naturally, the competition is warming up. Last week Manhattan Management Consultant John Diebold, a leading evangelist of the computer and its potential, joined with Commercial Credit Co. and Bankers Leasing Corp., a subsidiary of the Southern Pacific railroad, to form Diebold Computer Leasing Co. The firm, which will specialize in leasing the latest third-generation computer equipment in the U.S. and Europe, starts with an impressive $85 million bankroll, of which Commercial Credit put up $75 million as a revolving loan. "We are set up to be the General Motors-in this field," says Diebold. "The whole thing is structured...