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...commercialist got together. Norton Simon Inc. announced that it had agreed to acquire Susskind's Manhat tan-based Talent Associates Ltd. as a 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...
...than the Class of '69, '70 or '71 is likely to be. At many campuses, the instigators of the most violent demonstrations were sophomores or juniors. The seniors still see more in U.S. life worth saving, and have a far greater willingness to accept its traditions. English Major Thomas McKenna of Notre Dame rather pretentiously defines the Class of '68 as "the in-between class. We are the last of the old radicals, those who are willing to revolt in the systematic American way. We could be the salvation of everyone if we can just bridge...
Chairman and chief executive of the new company will be Hunt's present chairman-tough, acquisition-minded William E. McKenna, 48, whom Simon lured from Litton Industries last year. Under McKenna, as president, will be David J. Mahoney Jr., 45, a onetime Colgate-Palmolive marketing whiz who was hand-picked by Simon 18 months ago to turn ailing Canada Dry around, and did. Third member of the triumvirate will be Hunt President Harold M. Williams, 40, who joined Hunt 13 years ago as a tax lawyer. He will take over Simon's job as chairman of the finance...
HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 8:30-10 p.m.). The Admirable Crichton. Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna, the husband-and-wife team from the motion picture Born Free (1966), make their American TV debut in this adaptation of Sir James Barrie's 1902 comedy about a family of English aristocrats marooned with their servants on an island...
Restless Entrepreneur Norton Simon has yet to find the all-purpose chief executive for Hunt Foods & Industries. Recently, Simon replaced President Francis Fabian, 52, an operations expert who served him for about two years. Into the gap went William E. McKenna, 48, a smooth-talking senior vice president from Litton Industries with an accounting background and a Harvard Business School degree. Simon makes no bones about the reason for the change: he wants to expand his empire of subsidiaries and affiliates, which already includes McCall Corp., Hunt-Wesson Foods, Inc., Knox Glass Inc., Canada Dry Corp. and Crucible Steel Corp...