Word: mannix
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Indian-born conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, whose piercing eyes, touseled hair and magnetic personality have made him a favorite with women; and Nancy Kovack, a former aide to Dave Garroway on the Today show and 1968-69 Emmy Award nominee for her performance on the TV series Mannix; he for the second time; in a Methodist service followed by a Zoroastrian ceremony; in Los Angeles...
...Yorkers of the title are the Mannixes, members of a dwindling clan of well-to-do Jews, and their carefully tolerant gentile connections. The story begins in the 1940s at a political dinner given in honor of Judge Simon Mannix, a shrewd, large-minded man who has been "mentioned" for the Supreme Court. He is well sketched by the author, and one impudent touch is superb: Mannix has a deaf son, she relates, and thus has learned to lipread. To know what is being whispered at a testimonial dinner is to be an ironist, and Mannix...
Addicted to Dashes. But on his return home, Mannix arrives at the precise instant when his twelve-year-old daughter shoots and kills her mother, whom she has found in bed with a lover. From this point, the story starts to eddy in sluggish circles. Judge Mannix, who had seemed to be the novel's main character, drops from the author's primary notice. He is not really replaced; instead, his crippled family is endlessly viewed and reviewed by its remaining members and a succession of friends. This inward turning is less absorbing than Novelist Calisher believes...
...insurance. Julia (NBC) is a Negro widow. Warns Star Diahann Carroll: "Julia is not going to tell it like it is. It's a comedy, and Watts ain't funny." Another Negro widow, played by Gail Fisher, will be a regular on the old private-eye series Mannix (CBS). A pair of new ABC adventure programs feature balanced tickets as well. The Mod Squad boasts three troublemaking dropouts who turn fuzz: one hip white chick (Peggy Lipton), one rebellious rich white boy (Michael Cole), and one ghetto black (Clarence Williams III). And The Outcasts are an odd couple...
...voracious appetites for instant manpower, corporate bigness tends to dilute employee loyalty, with the result that executives are more willing to listen to new job offers. What makes them even more susceptible is the fact that so much of the growth has been occurring through mergers. Says F. L. Mannix, an executive recruiter in Wellesley, Mass.: "Suddenly there are two people for one job. A man sees the handwriting on the wall and decides to move...