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David J. Mahoney, the ebullient, $350,000-a-year chief executive of Norton Simon Inc., looks like a movie hero, talks like a salesman in a hurry and is willing to go out on a limb. At the start of each of the past three years, Mahoney predicted that the earnings of the widely diversified food, drink and publishing company would increase by at least 15%. He has hit the mark every time. Now, bent on building N.S.I, into a consumer-products giant that would equal Procter & Gamble and Unilever, Mahoney has begun a major drive for acquisitions...
...acquisition is Mahoney's latest effort to shake up the corporation that he was chosen to run in 1969 with the strong support of Norton Simon, who put it together. Soon after, Simon sold out his interest to devote himself to art collecting. Mahoney, now 49, took charge of a loose group of enterprises-Hunt-Wesson Foods, Canada Dry soft drinks, Johnnie Walker Scotch and other liquors, Redbook and McCall's magazines, David Susskind's television-production firm (Talent Associates) and even companies that manufacture tin cans...
...best we have is culture has come from the teeming, turbulent sinking cities," San Francisco Mayor Joseph L. Alioto told an English class in the Fogg Norton Lecture Hall yesterday...
...EVENING of May 15, 1970, an audience still spellbound by the labyrinthine connections of the Authentic Unconscious," the last of Lionel Trilling's Charles Eliot Norton lectures, left Lowell Lecture Hall to find streets barricaded with paddy wagons and helmeted riot troops, the Square ablaze with bonfires and theatrical hysteria. Whiffs of pungent tear gas later penetrated even the inner recesses of Adams House where guests at a reception for the Trillings sheepishly held wetted towels to their noses. That spark set off a Spring of agitation and activist preoccupations that left many a subtler or less relevant issue...
Eliot Forbes '40, chairman of the Music Department, called Bernstein's action a unique gesture very much in keeping with the Norton chair presence...