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...leadership of the women's field, the Journal (circ. 6,800,000) has been losing believers. Last week, as part of its radical retrenchment policies, the venerable Curtis Publishing Co. sold off the Journal, along with the household-decorating monthly American Home. The buyer: Downe Communications Inc., a consortium of mailorder firms, cosmetic and pet-food companies, and the newspaper supplement Family Weekly. Price: 100,000 shares of Downe stock, worth about $5,400,0000. Downe hopes to boost the Journal's circulation and ad revenue without changing either its staff or, more important, its basic philosophy-"never...
...UNIVERSAL BASEBALL ASSOCIATION, INC., J. HENRY WAUGH, PROP., by Robert Coover. A 56-year-old accountant who sees the cosmos as an intricate baseball game records the hits, runs and many errors in his tragicomic efforts to be God's scorekeeper...
Young was supported by the league's white officials. "Of course I'm for Black Power," declared James A. Linen, President of Time Inc. and newly elected national president of the league. "But not for black terrorist power, not for black power for vengeance-but for vindication. Black Power will succeed if black Americans push into the world rather than withdraw from...
Once the world's largest talent agency and more recently Hollywood's leading TV film producer, the Music Corp. of America has long been known in show-business circles as "The Octopus." The sobriquet still stands, even though the company (now called MCA Inc.) stopped handling talent in 1962 under threat of a Justice Department antitrust suit. Besides TV production, MCA has major interests in moviemaking (Universal Pictures), recording (Decca Records) and real estate (Universal City). Last week it agreed to link tentacles with Pittsburgh-based Westinghouse Electric Corp., itself no small fish when it comes to diversification...
...been in the record business for eight years, and I've never worn a shirt and tie." Yet even the entertainment industry has its stuffier side, proving that variations in dress depend largely on what image a company is trying to project. A case in point is MCA, Inc., a film producer and recording company whose new aluminum-and-glass building in Universal City has more than its share of kookily attired production and clerical workers. Still, as one aide puts it, President Lew R. Wasserman is determined to "make the company look like a solid business operation...