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...name is Mirisch, and hardly anyone has heard of it except the Bank of America. The Mirisch Co., Inc. was formed in 1957 by three brothers who were anxious to leave their salaried executive positions at Allied Artists and join the "indie" wave. In less than four years they have grossed $43 million, achieving the fiscal stature of a major studio, and even a partial list of their credits is enough to make M-G-M wish its initials could be changed...
Until she died last February at 84, sprightly Mrs. Anna Erickson occupied a special place in the art world. Her late husband was an advertising tycoon (McCann-Erickson, Inc.) who, with a connoisseur's taste, had begun a small collection of paintings that she kept adding to. In the end, the collection had only 24 works, but it was one that made the mouths of museum directors water...
...KENNEDY CIRCLE, edited by Lester Tanzer (315 pp.; Robert B. Luce, Inc.; $4.95); THE KENNEDY GOVERNMENT, by Stan Opotowsky (208 pp.; Dutton; $3.95), are two more quickie efforts on the same subject. Both are collections of sketches of the strong men in the Kennedy Government, and as with most sketchbooks, their quality varies. The Kennedy Circle is the most variable since it was gathered from the blacksheets of 14 top Washington correspondents. Its best feature is its occasional irreverence: New York Times's Elie Abel makes Defense Secretary Robert McNamara a character of almost comic naiveté when...
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...When wily Royal Little, 65, stepped down as chief executive officer of Textron Inc. last year, it was part of a plan to make room for younger men at the top. Last week Little surrendered another job: the presidency of Textron Electronics, 76% owned by the parent company. In as Little's replacement and chief executive officer went tweedy, relaxed Robert Gustav Tabors, 46 a former Textron vice president. Tabors' prime goal at Textron Electronics: to diversify its product line within the electronics field...