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...Disneyish about the goings-on - no frogs dancing the frug, no kissing coots. When a leopard set out to stalk a wildebeest in a recent episode, the victim all too surely was brought to earth. "If you are going to show the truth," said Kingdom's Producer Don Meier, "you cannot avoid the proposition that tooth-and-claw battles take place every day in the wild kingdom. We would be doing a dis service to our viewers if we glossed that over." Realism has paid off. Wild Kingdom, carried on 185 NBC stations, stands a few points ahead...
...John Kennedy's inner circle of advisers was breaking up. First to quit was Kennedy Speechwriter Theodore C. Sorensen. Last week Lyndon Johnson accepted the resignation, effective March 1, of ex-Harvard History Professor Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr., 46, who has decided "to return to scholarly work...
...that make up the American Finance Conference kick off their annual convention with a blast against their special foe: giant General Motors Acceptance Corp., the sales finance subsidiary of General Motors. They kicked again last week in Washington, and with new fury. Unless G.M.A.C. is quickly curbed, complained Richard Meier, chair man of the A.F.C. executive committee, there may soon be no "independents" left. In the past five years, says Meier, the number of independent auto finance companies has shrunk from...
...financing market from 39.5% to 49%. It takes a large finance company to be able to raise capital cheaply enough to lend it out at rates competitive with those the banks can offer. As a result, many small companies have been absorbed in mergers. A.F.C.'s Meier concedes that his own Interstate Finance Corp. of Evansville, Ind., has "taken in from 25 to 50 companies by merger" since it started 42 years ago. And even though the independents' share of car financing has dropped from 29% to 17% since 1955, they are really not doing so badly...
Arthur M. (for Meier) Schlesinger Jr., Special Assistant to the President. Harvard history professor and prolific author of articles and books (The Age of Jackson, The Age of Roosevelt), Schlesinger is a Ph.D. in doctrinaire liberalism. A leader of Americans for Democratic Action, he was Adlai Stevenson's adviser and speechwriter in 1952 and 1956, swung away in 1960 when it looked as if Kennedy would be the front runner in the presidential primary campaigns. He was a top man in Kennedy's campaign brain trust. Schlesinger, 43, will have no specific assignment, but will write a speech...