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Friday, September 8 OFF TO SEE THE WIZARD (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Animated cartoon characters based on The Wizard of Oz will introduce child-oriented movies, beginning with Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion (MGM, 1965). Premiere...
Levin's point in his proxy battles was that the management of MGM under President Robert H. O'Brien had been lax. As he saw it, the company that has Leo the Lion as its emblem too often roared, then sat down. Actually, Levin lost the proxy fights because most stockholders agreed that Leo had become more and more leonine...
...quantities in which the U.S. buys. "When the U.S. wants fish hooks," an American buyer recently told a visiting British businessman, "she wants them in millions." To provide the millions-and to help their nation improve its trade balance-a group of Britons has organized a marketing company called Lion & Unicorn, Ltd. after the royal coat of arms...
...Lion & Unicorn will act as a kind of transatlantic middleman offering "the best of Britain." From offices in London, it will counsel British concerns on what they can sell to Americans-and how to go about selling it. Meanwhile in the U.S., now from a New York office and eventually from branches in other major cities, it will back its British clients with market research, advertising and promotion. Next month Lion & Unicorn will bring a couple of nubile nobles, Lady Mary Gaye Georgiana Curzon and her sister, Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Anne Curzon,* to New York to model mod clothes...
...idea of Lion & Unicorn was conceived by Lieut. Colonel V.A.J. (Villiers Archer John) Heald, 49, a onetime Scots Guardsman and wartime aide-de-camp to Dwight Eisenhower. Heald last year accompanied the Duke of Edinburgh on a U.S. tour to tout British goods. He heard complaints everywhere that Americans could never find suitable British products in their stores. Heald returned to London to round up partners and money, formed Lion & Unicorn as "an effective way to bring people together by trade...