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Convoy's script, based on C.W. Mc-Call's bestselling pop song, rarely flirts with logic. The dialogue, which is glutted with CB-radio slang and western-movie cliches, ranges from the absurd to the subliterate. We never understand why Rubber Duck's nemesis (the congenitally irate Ernest Borgnine) is after him or what the truckers' grievances are. What's worse, we don't care. Next to this muddleheaded film, F.I.S.T. starts to look like a dynamic political manifesto. Peckinpah tries to enliven the nonsense with slow-motion automotive stunts and barroom brawls...
...years as a businessman; of a heart attack; in Marathon, Fla. Hawley retired from Armstrong Cork Co. in 1951 to write his first novel, Executive Suite, a simplistic look at high-level corporate intrigue, and followed that with two more variations on the same theme (Cash Mc-Call, The Lincoln Lords), all of which made him far wealthier than most of his business colleagues. He suffered a heart attack in 1962, and his recent novel, The Hurricane Years, is a disquieting disquisition on the physiological stresses and strains that accompany the executive life...
...merger would also end any chance of a takeover by ABC's largest stockholder, Norton Simon, the West Coast industrialist. Simon, in fact, seems delighted. One reason: he already has a $17 million paper profit on the 9.9% of ABC common stock held by his Hunt Foods and Mc-Call Corp...
Established in 1919, S-M was one of the first publisher-owned agencies for the distribution of magazines to newsstands. It was started by the Popular Science Publishing Co., Inc. and the Mc-Call Corp. The S-M stands for Science and McCall, and this name has not been changed even though the Reader's Digest Association, Inc., Meredith Publishing Co. and Street & Smith Publications, Inc. have since joined the organization...
Outfield-E. G. Burgess '98, H. J. Holt '98, J. W. Abbott '98, H. T. Hooper '98, W. H. Lynch '99, S. W. Morse '99, J. W. Work Sp., A. W. Dilley '93, E. J. Wolbach '99 W. H. Rand, Jr., '98, J. C. Mc-Call '99, F. Curtis '98, W. E. Waterhouse '98, E. H. Sears '99, B. A. Franklin...
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