Word: leonards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...management at ABC was elated by the turn of events. Concluded ABC President Leonard Goldenson: "Because of their confidence and faith in the future of our company, a substantial majority of our stockholders elected to reject the Hughes tender offer." Shares of the company closed down by only 380 by the end of the week from a high of $67.75 on Tuesday, before the news...
Tennessee Governor Buford Ellington announced a $5000 state reward. Knoxville's mayor Leonard Rogers said his administration "is very anxious" to solve the case...
...hastily tracked through three generations by Family Biographer Ronald Clark. Above Aldous' cradle brooded the example of his grandfather, T. H. Huxley, a brilliant biologist and a public defender of Darwin when Origin of Species was shocking fundamentalists. Representing a kind of caretaker generation, Aldous' father Leonard devoted most of his life to a two-volume biography reciting the achievements of T.H. and looking forward with confidence to his own chil dren's outdoing him. No one is quite sure which son-Aldous or Julian-he had in mind when he wrote...
...offer was a good one. ABC, third-ranking network in U.S. television, desperately needs money to convert completely to color and upgrade its programming; of the three major TV systems it was the only one that lost money last year on network operations. ABC's president, Leonard H. Goldenson, thought he had the wherewithal last year, when ITT agreed to buy the network. But the Justice Department entered objections, stalled the deal to the point that ITT Chairman Harold S. Geneen finally backed out because the value of ITT stock had gone up so much in the meantime that...
...girl, Doris Mae Winter, is a social dropout too ("her formal education had come to an end when she slugged a history teacher for giving her a failing mark") and is frigid to boot. Romance, naturally, blossoms. She becomes Leonard's partner in a Bonnie sexual union-successful for him, enjoyable for her-before he comes to his Clyde...