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...making their key stations hire more musicians. He agreed not to ask for a pay increase. He decided, after three years of stubborn resistance, to let union musicians appear on television programs. When he signed a new three-year contract last week, NBC's Vice President Frank Mullen couldn't resist giving him a present-a shiny, new gold trumpet...
Grocer J. Frank Grimes wanted a homey magazine that his customers could tuck into their shopping bags. Editor John W. Mullen wanted a mass audience for his Family Life movement, which fights delinquency and divorce. Young (31) Marshall Field IV wanted to try his wings as a publishing angel. Last week the three of them got together as sponsors of American Family, a 5? monthly to be launched in the fall with a starting circulation...
...untold millions keeping the Chicago Sun, PM and other ventures aloft. For only $70,000 (his own), Field IV got all the preferred stock in American Family. The common stock will be split four ways among: 1) Grimes's massive (4,900 stores) Independent Grocers' Alliance, 2) Mullen, 3) Field IV, 4) Carl J. Weitzel, vice president and treasurer of Field Enterprises, Inc. An advisory board of 47 educators and clergymen will try to help the magazine aim a little higher than its biggest rivals, the A & P's giant Woman's Day (circ...
Backer Field, a Harvardman, Navy veteran and father of two, was divorced last month. "He is interested," said Editor Mullen, "in doing something constructive about family life." Speaking for himself, Field said: "I'm interested in American Family primarily as an experiment. It's an attempt to get away from newsstand sales. Ultimately I hope to get Pocket Books [another Field enterprise] into grocery stores." Meanwhile he was keeping his job as an editorial writer on the Chicago...
Hardest hit by a recent rash of parties (on the week ends, naturally) have been our married brethren, whose role of gentlemen in waiting, for you wife to escape such well-known Ali Babas as Joe Neil, "Terrible Tom" Mullen, and smooth-talking J. F. Stonewall Smith...