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...become in creasingly interested in it. Stung by a number of critically acclaimed produc tions that proved to be financial flops, Susskind has expanded into bread-and-butter situation shows, notably NBC's Get Smart series. Simon has consol idated the bulk of his holdings - Hunt Foods, McCall Corp. and Canada Dry Corp. - into a $1-billion-a-year opera tion, now devotes much of his time to collecting art and serving as a Uni versity of California regent...
...wholly owned subsidiary. Although Si mon remains his conglomerate's biggest stockholder, he has left its active man agement largely to Chairman William E. McKenna, who engineered the Tal ent Associates acquisition as a way of expanding his firm's activities in the communications field. Through McCall Corp., Norton Simon Inc. already pub lishes McC all's magazine (circ. 8,500,000). McKenna looks to the new prop erty for "important growth" in the field of communications...
Since her husband left for Viet Nam in March, Lynda Bird Robb has filled her days writing for McCall's, visiting Houston's Astro-World, playgoing in New York and gallery-hopping in Washington. This month she nipped off to Newport for a weekend of yachting with Socialite Topsy Taylor and other friends. But such activity for Mrs. Robb, who expects her first child in October, will come to a screeching halt. So says L.B.J. By paternal/presidential command, Lynda has been told she must stop traveling in September...
Died. J. R. Cominsky, 69, longtime publisher of the Saturday Review and vice president since 1961 of its parent, McCall Corp.; of a heart attack; in Asbury Park, N.J. Acting against the advice of friends, Cominsky in 1942 took on the small, impoverished Saturday Review of Literature, revamped its advertising, helped enlarge its editorial content and agreed to a merger with McCall in 1961-all of which boosted circulation to nearly 600,000 copies a year, 15 times that...
...Ease. A native Californian, Pauline Kael arrived in New York three years ago and landed a reviewing job on McCall's. She did not stay very long because of her unladylike way of dismissing certain movies with a karate chop of criticism. "I thought I'd last six months," she says. "I lasted five." She moved on to the more congenial New Republic, then switched to The New Yorker last winter. She has brought out two books of collected criticism, Lost It at the Movies and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Though she is now considered one of the country...