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...decade ago, TV Producer-Perform er David Susskind was generating some bright cultural rays with quality net work dramas and a provocative new talk show, Open End. At the same time, California Industrialist Norton W. Simon, president of Hunt Foods & In dustries', was making commercial his tory by buying up one new company after another. Since then, Susskind has been putting somewhat less emphasis on culture, and Simon has 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...
Last week the old culturist and the old 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...
...will be no less unusual than his career. He has written a blistering, 317-page indictment of U.S. methods in Viet Nam, which he neglected to get cleared by top Marine brass. To be published on July 1, the day after Corson retires from the corps, The Betrayal (W.W. Norton & Co.; $5.95) is an angry book that derides the search-and-destroy strategy devised by Army General William C. Westmoreland and scorns U.S. diplomats and politicians for trusting "corrupt" Vietnamese generals who rule in Saigon. At first, Marine Commandant Leonard F. Chapman Jr. contemplated a court-martial for Corson...
ENDERBY by Anthony Burgess. 412 pages. W. W. Norton...
...Stevens, 20, an impulsive senior at fashionable all-girl Wheaton College in Norton, Mass., had a comfortable up bringing in affluent Greenwich, Conn. She attended Rosemary Hall, an expensive private girls' school, enjoyed the social life at The Belle Haven Club, to which her father, the president of a local radio station, belongs. But, she says, "I never realized how prejudiced I was. In Greenwich the blacks are all maids or something similar, and you don't have to think about them because you've put them in a category." Like many in the Class of '68, she has since...