Word: mayers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Aubrey returned to power. Las Vegas Financier Kirk Kerkorian, who a month ago won control of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, picked him to be the company's new president to replace Louis ("Bo") Polk Jr., 39, who was fired. Polk had been chosen only last January by Edgar M. Bronfman, whose 16% holding in the company was the largest until Kerkorian bought roughly a 40% share for about $100 million. (Time Inc. owns 5%.) Bronfman and one of three other directors representing his interests quit the 19-man board last week...
...Jean Mayer, professor of Nutrition at the School of Public Health, told a Women's National Press Club luncheon last Thursday that high concentrations of the ingredient have caused extensive brain damage in infant mice...
...Mayer said the affected area of the brain was the hypothalamus, which regulates food and water intake. Dr. Mayer, responding to a question, said. "I would take the damn stuff out of baby food...
Kirk Kerkorian, 52, who built his $275 million fortune on airlines, hotels and Las Vegas gambling, last week added another potentially rich prize to his leisure and travel domain. He won control of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the ailing moviemaker, with a stunningly successful tender offer for some $26 million of its common stock at $42 a share. In August, Kerkorian had picked up 22% of MOM's stock through another tender. Now his holdings will rise to at least 32% and perhaps to as much as 45% of the company's shares, depending on how much...
Died. William Goetz, 66, movie producer and studio executive; in Los Angeles. A son-in-law of Movie Tycoon Louis B. Mayer, Goetz helped found both 20th Century-Fox and Universal-International before striking out on his own in 1954. His hits included Sayonara, The Song of Bernadette, Winchester '73, and he was among the first with the-now common practice-idea of giving top stars a percentage of the profits from their pictures...