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...Show. Explained ABC-Paramount President Leonard Goldenson: "ABC television sales are not up to expectations for the 1956-57 broadcasting season. Fall sales of the important Mickey Mouse daytime TV program are considerably below those of last year." Actually, Kintner has had his troubles ever since Paramount Theatres took over cash-short ABC in a $25 million stock-swapping deal three years ago. Paramount then paid off ABC's $7,662,000 debt, put in a handful of Paramount executives, including three new ABC vice presidents. Two of them later resigned, one after he lost...
...Substantial Dispute." Finally, President Goldenson's dump-Kintner campaign won over 13 of the 17 directors on the company's board, which is heavy with Paramount men. Kintner sent a cold letter of resignation to "Dear Mr. Goldenson," stating that "We are in substantial dispute concerning policies relating to the organization and operation of ABC." Goldenson then personally took charge of ABC, promised to find a new president later...
...committee: Psychologist Robert M. Goldenson. Dr. Frances (Ding Dong School) Horwich and NBC Board Member Mildred McAfee Horton, ex-president of Wellesley College. Some of their chief complaints...
...addition to Brown, the New York committee consists of Richard C. Aldrich '31, producer; Robert W. Anderson '39, playwright; Robert E. Sherwood '18, playwright; Donald M. Oenslager '23, designer; Curt H. Reisinger '12; Vinton Freedly '14, producer; Leonard H. Goldenson '27, president of Paramount Pictures; Nathaniel Benchley '38; Paul M. Hollister '13; and Donald S. Stralem '24, investment banker...
From one of their own kind, however, the theater owners got a brighter image. Said Leonard H. Goldenson, president of American Broadcasting-Paramount Theaters, Inc.: TV and the movies are so different that they are not truly competitive. "One is the 'athome snack' while the other is a seven-course meal at a sumptuous restaurant. And television will no more put motion pictures out of business than home cooking-good as it may be-has put restaurants out of business...