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...vividly as any are Balladeer Carole King, Hard-Rocker Ian Anderson, Pop-Jazz Songstress Roberta Flack and Fey Troubadour Harry Nilsson. Not exactly household names, they nevertheless enjoy more status with the young than a Newman or a Taylor. They are more lavishly remunerated than, say, Redford or Mac-Graw. Indeed, everything about the music industry of the '70s is reminiscent of Hollywood in the '30s and '40s: moguls, superstars and promoters operating in a world charged with sex and power and conspiring to sell slick, tuneful packages to a voracious public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Records: Moguls, Money & Monsters | 2/12/1973 | See Source »

...York Giants bought Mc-Graw's genius in 1902 and made him player-manager. On and off the field, his style perfectly suited the abrasive, autocratic temper of the times. The lions of Broadway and Tammany Hall loved the feisty little manager. He drank at The Lambs club with George M. Cohan, and eventually became one of Mayor Jimmy Walker's favorite cronies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Tyrant of Coogan's Bluff | 8/29/1969 | See Source »

TOPAZ by Leon Uris. 341 pages. Mc-Graw-Hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Commercial--Just Barely | 9/29/1967 | See Source »

...been voiced a bit sooner. The TVA has long complained about strangely identical bids. Last May it disclosed 24 cases since 1956 of matching bids-sometimes down to a hundredth of a penny-involving 47 U.S. manufacturers. On one transformer contract, for example. General Electric, Allis-Chalmers, and Mc-Graw-Edison's Pennsylvania Transformer Division each submitted bids of $112,712; Westinghouse won the contract with a bid of $86,760. This year, competing to supply 33,000 power-line insulators, G.E. and six other companies submitted identical bids; G.E. got about 45% of the order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Price Fixing at G.E.? | 1/18/1960 | See Source »

GENERAL MILLS, whose sales of housewares have been slipping, sold out its small-appliance business (electric irons, mixers, etc.) to Mc-Graw Electric Co. of Elgin, 111. (Toastmaster). Last year General Mills' housewares-division sales amounted to 2% of the company's $483 million gross, but current sales are estimated at less than 1 % or under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, may 24, 1954 | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

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