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...when several stockholders complained about the quality of the CBS television schedule. After announcing that first-quarter earnings would drop about $1,000,000, although sales would rise to about $215 million, or 12% above the first quarter of last year, he formally announced two acquisitions-Creative Playthings and Holt, Rinehart & Winston. Two days earlier, RCA said its first-quarter sales and earnings were a record-$683 million and $34.4 million respectively...
JOURNEY THROUGH A HAUNTED LAND: THE NEW GERMANY by Amos Eton. 259 pages. Holt, R/neharf & Winston...
Murphy shocked the Eastern diving world last weekend by upending Princeton's Holt Manness -- 1966 National champ -- in the three meter Eastern finals at Yale. Off that performance and his fourth place in the one meter competition, the red-headed sophomore won a trip to the nationals...
...various times, CBS has looked over Curtis Publishing Co., held inconclusive talks with the Boston textbook house, Allyn and Bacon. With Holt, the indirect approach proved more successful. Holt President Alfred C. Edwards was caught by surprise last September when CBS paid some $19 million for the stock held by his biggest (10.8%) shareholders, Texas Entrepreneurs Clint and John Murchison. Upset at the time, Edwards since has warmed to the idea of CBS's rich (1966 sales: $815 million) corporate shelter...
Itself the prosperous product of a 1960 merger of 101-year-old Henry Holt & Co. and two other houses, Holt depends on its school texts and other educational materials for 80% of its business. Its general book division, which has published Robert Louis Stevenson, William James and Robert Frost, has declined to 7%. For the rest, Holt has not only a growing business in educational movies and other teaching aids, but a group of four magazines, including that staunch sportsman's standby Field & Stream. Overall earnings last year rose 28%, to $6.6 million on sales of $70 million-enough...