Word: inces
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...projected monthly, to be put out by Manhattan investment firm Gabriel Gladstone & Co. Inc. Other first-issue contributors: New Deal Economist Leon Keyserling, perennial Socialist Presidential Candidate Norman Thomas...
...Shot of Pizazz. Sinatra's telegram was transparently timed to pump a little publicity pizazz into the weary, long-running argument between 33 members of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) and the organization known as Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI). For a generation, ASCAP has been collecting flat, annual fees from broadcasting stations for broadcast performances of its members' works. In 1939, some 250 pinched broadcasters, including all the major networks, formed a rival organization, BMI, and the two have been skirmishing ever since. The point currently at issue: Does the broadcasters' control...
...their boards with outside specialists in banking, engineering, the law, science and merchandising. Many a firm now recognizes that an outside board is better for public relations and stockholder relations-to say nothing of its position in a proxy fight. Last week California's S & W Fine Foods, Inc., long dominated by an inside board, lost five of the nine seats to Louis A. Petri, president of United Vintners, largely because of stockholder dissatisfaction with the old board's policies...
BILLION-DOLLAR CLUB has another member, its 42nd. The company: Minneapolis' Cargill Inc., one of the nation's biggest grain dealers, whose sales topped 1 billion in fiscal...
...will take more than talk, though, to get Pete Rademacher back in the ring with Patterson. This time it took a $250,000 guarantee put up by Pete's employer, an amorphous corporation named Youth Unlimited, Inc. founded in Columbus, Ga., for the avowed purpose of promoting clean-cut professional athletes who will be a credit to sport. For their money, Pete's backers promoted themselves little more than a trip to the Northwest. Their share of the gate was less than half of what they spent, and there are rumors that Patterson's manager...