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Even without ABC, Geneen has established himself as one of the most acquisitive empire builders at a time when merger mania is altering the landscape of U.S. business...
...Discovery is mostly my mania," he wrote. His biographer answers him back: "Burton's real passion was not for geographical discovery, but for the hidden in man, for the unknowable and therefore the unthinkable. What his Victorian compatriots called unclean, bestial or Satanic, he regarded with almost clinical detachment. In this respect he belongs more properly...
...season began. With a young team, it was easy for a winning attitude to develop, and Williams did not have to work any psychological miracles. When Boston went on a road trip and came back home with a 10-game winning streak, this winning attitude turned into a virtual mania...
Dappled Nouns. If art is Nabokov's muse, words are his mania: puns, anagrams (he has pointed out with glee that T. S. Eliot is almost "toilets" spelled backward), "word golf" (get from "live" to "dead" in five steps*), bilingual and trilingual double-entendres. More seriously, words of any language are vital possessions...
...company promises to "make tennis big business" in the manner, if not with the mania, of James Bond and Batman. In return for royalties, manufacturers will be licensed to stick "USLTA" and "Davis Cup Team" endorsements on everything from sweat socks to sunglasses. This newest type of tennis racket was proposed by Licensing Corp. President Allan Stone, 43, who won the skeptical USLTA over by arguing that 1) the U.S. Olympic Committee has endorsed Chap Stick and other items, and 2) the royalties should reach $250,000 within two years. Says USLTA President Robert J. Kelleher: "We never really knew...