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...company. Her family controlled the Post when she took over in 1963. Like Graham, women who headed major firms in the past were usually the wives or daughters of the owners. Christie Hefner runs Playboy Enterprises, the company started by her father. Moya Lear became chairman of LearAvia, a maker of corporate jets, after her husband William died...
Coca-Cola has made the biggest splash so far. Three years ago the company began a program to put its name on more than 30 different products, including radios and baseball bats. Last year Coke licensed its name to Murjani, the maker of Gloria Vanderbilt jeans, which now offers 125 items of sportswear emblazoned with the cola's trademark. Sales of the clothes have been so effervescent that the beveragemaker opened a Manhattan store called Fizzazz to sell only Coca-Cola clothes. Shoppers sip free cola as they gaze at clothing displays projected onto a 25-ft. wall of viewing...
...another case of corporate indigestion, Pantry Pride, the supermarket chain that acquired Revlon in November, last week announced that it had sold two Revlon units to Beecham Group, a British conglomerate, for $395 million. The two jettisoned Revlon divisions are Norcliff Thayer, maker of Tums antacids and other over-the-counter medications, and Reheis, a chemicals manufacturer. ENTERTAINMENT Rockin' with Uncle...
...software that now comes with most computers--iMovie HD for Macs, Movie Maker 2 for PCs--is truly amazing. With iMovie even a novice can reorder scenes, add titles and set up a sound track. Mix in photos and music from iTunes and iPhoto or deploy sound effects from Skywalker Sound. Movie Maker boasts similar features (if not as elegant an interface...
DIED. LESLIE SMITH, 87, co-founder of Lesney Products, maker of Matchbox cars; in north London. After World War II, he established a die-casting shop with a fellow veteran and sold his first toy, a small brass road roller, in 1952. The next year Lesney introduced its first Matchbox cars--cement mixers, dump trucks and road rollers--and a decade later was selling 50 million of them a year...