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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Harry H. S. Phillips Jr., 67, first publisher of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, founded by Time Inc. in 1954, who saw the magazine off to a swift start (250,000 subscriptions even before the name was announced) and helped it grow toward vast success (present circulation: 1,310,950) before he moved on to a corporate staff position in 1959; after a long illness; in Mount Kisco...
During the past two years, Scovill has been expanding through acquisitions of companies in housing and home building. It thereby hopes to escape overdependence on brass-mill earnings, which accounted for some 55% of company sales in the early 1960s. In 1967 Scovill bought NuTone Inc., maker of built-in home products. This year it added Caradco, the second largest window-frame producer in the U.S. For an even better balance, Scovill firmly intends to bring down the share of brass to 20% of total sales through future acquisitions...
...range, the general won his stars long ago. As founder and chairman of his Kansas City firm, Oppenheimer Industries Inc., he maneuvers some 220,000 head of cattle on more than 100 ranches in 17 states. In addition, he is one of the nation's leading authorities on the arcane art of investing in cattle. He has written two books on ranching (Cowboy Arithmetic, Cowboy Economics) and co-authored a third (the recently published Cowboy Litigation, a 561-page tome on the tax and legal aspects of ranching...
Last week the old culturist and the old commercialist got together. Norton Simon Inc. announced that it had agreed to acquire Susskind's Manhat tan-based Talent Associates Ltd. as a wholly owned subsidiary. Although Si mon remains his conglomerate's biggest stockholder, he has left its active man agement largely to Chairman William E. McKenna, who engineered the Tal ent Associates acquisition as a way of expanding his firm's activities in the communications field. Through McCall Corp., Norton Simon Inc. already pub lishes McC all's magazine (circ. 8,500,000). McKenna looks...
Besides its television work, Talent As sociates has also engaged in a limited way in feature-film production (Requi em for a Heavyweight, A Raisin in the Sun). Referring to Norton Simon Inc...