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Henson is clearly a gifted businessman, and on the point of becoming a very wealthy one, but he is secretive as a nesting hen when asked to talk figures. The Muppet Show, considered separately, is listed on the books as making no profit, in part because Henson keeps putting money back into the program. Help is on the way. "The long-range profit for this show is down the road, when it's syndicated and sold to the stations," says Henson. "It's a couple of years away." Lord Grade adds with satisfaction that the take from this "strip syndication...
Miner), her best friend and a kind of Falstaffian mother-hen realist, knows better, partly because she has read the morning society news announcing Ellis' fiancee. It is not Dorothea...
...Crimson batsmen did not help their own cause, though, blowing solid scoring chances in the first and the sixth. In the first, Charlie Santos-Buch led off with a sharp single, but Blue Hen catcher Herb Orensky gunned him down stealing...
...teeters back and forth in his high-backed leather chair, Kahn, 60, looks like a restless hawk. The image is apt. In less than a year as chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, he has outdone any of his predecessors in shooing the airlines out of the cozy hen house of Government supervision that has protected and confined them for 40 years. By opening the door to all-out competition, Kahn has drastically, and probably permanently, changed the U.S. airline industry...
...container of holy water from Lourdes, an eight-inch-wide cookie made of Rice Krispies and baked in the shape of a maple leaf, four whips (sent to him when he was Senate whip), a paint-by-number picture of Rin Tin Tin, and an egg laid by a hen on the day a man first walked on the moon. Elizabeth Knight of the historical society, who is attempting to make an inventory of the entire collection, says she has no idea how many items there are or what their value might...