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With next season's schedules all but inked in, NBC calmly revealed that the Huntley-Brinkley news, already 80% sold, will be the biggest-grossing show on television. Its $21,000 per minute of commercial is not really all that big-Bonanza, the top-rated series, gets $63,000...
Curiously, however, the play may well build to a long and financially successful run. With just one modest set and three actors, it can break even merely by taking in $12,000 a week, or 27% of the theater's capacity. It is not grossing even that much yet...
Tops on Fifth. Though Howard Johnson's has a thicker cut of the national restaurant business, Stouffer's boasts some superlatives of its own. In Manhattan, Stouffer's Fifth Avenue, which includes the skyscraping Top of the Six's, is the nation's largest restaurant...
Dillinger & the Pope. Sack got into the theater business by accident. The son of immigrant Russian Jews, Sack owned four meat markets by the time he was 19, lost them at 20 when the Depression hit. Turning to a truck driver's job with a scrap-metal firm owned...
Full House. Sack claims that his theaters are grossing $2,300,000 a year. He should do even better now that he has added the Music Hall, which cost him $600,000 to renovate. Along with movies, the big theater is booked for the Bolshoi Ballet this winter, the Metropolitan...