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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wally Findlay Galleries International, Inc. is one firm that needed no urging. Findlay, a Chicago-based art dealer with sales of $9.5 million a year, went public at $13.50 a share...
...include Ad Press, a New York printing house with sales of $7.5 million a year, that went public at $15 a share in 1969 and paid $3 a share to buy back stock that had slipped to $2.25 in the market by 1973; and Houston-based Diversified Design Disciplines, Inc., an architectural and engineering firm (annual income: $9 million) whose stock was initially offered at $12.50 in 1972 and has since sunk to $4.50. The company says that it will try to repurchase the shares for $7 each...
Joan Ganz Cooney, 44, revolutionized children's television in 1969 when she began producing Sesame Street for the Public Broadcasting Service. A former NBC publicity director, she now presides over the nonprofit Children's Television Workshop, Inc., which produces 130 segments of Sesame Street and 130 of Electric Company each year. Elegant and outspoken, Mrs. Cooney has served on the President's Commission on Drug Abuse and was recently appointed to the media-monitoring National News Council. In the past year she has formed two C.T.W. subsidiaries to produce shows for commercial TV and ease Sesame Street...
Marshall Field V, 33, was only two years out of Harvard when his father died and left him heir to Field Enterprises, Inc., one of the nation's largest publishers (Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Daily News, World Book Encyclopedia). He spent the next five years training to fill his father's shoes-and earning a considerable reputation as a bon vivant. A moderate with occasionally liberal political views, Field has grown into a tough...
Donald B. Marron, 39. The president and chief executive of Mitchell, Hutchins Inc., a major Wall Street institutional brokerage firm, started his own investment banking firm in 1958. Seven years later he merged with Mitchell, Hutchins, then a small Chicago firm and by 1969 was its president. Shifting emphasis from small-investor business to the institutional trade just in time to catch the new wave in the market, he has seen revenues grow by more than 40% a year since 1966 (last year's total: $20 million). One of his innovations has been to hire noted experts in other...