Word: owners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). "Think Pretty," Fred Astaire's first TV musical comedy, in which he plays the owner of a record company. Repeat...
...hitter. And he could take some solace from the fact that nine other pitchers have hurled nine-inning (or longer) no hitters and lost, including two still active in the major leagues: Baltimore's Harvey Haddix and Milwaukee's Ken Johnson. What's more, Cincinnati Owner Bill DeWitt announced that he was giving Maloney a $1,000 raise (to $31,000). It would take more than that to comfort him. "I haven't a thing to be proud of," he said. "I just lost to the New York Mets...
...Atlanta Braves will get handsome TV income from Anheuser-Busch and home-brewed Coca-Cola among others; and J. Leonard Reinsch, who offered the A.F.L. $7,500,000 for a football franchise, happens to be president of Cox Broadcasting Corp., owner of Atlanta's biggest station...
...explains why the N.F.L.'s Commissioner Rozelle is so anxious to beat the upstart A.F.L. into Georgia. The stronger N.F.L. has already lined up equally prestigious backers to support a franchise. Among the members of a syndicate dickering for a team: Texas Oilman John Mecom Jr., Indianapolis Speedway Owner Tony Hulman, Coca-Cola Heir Lindsey Hopkins Jr. So far, Atlanta's Stadium Authority has been playing it cozy, says only that no decision on rental rights will be made until July...
...when the Braves beat the Dodgers three games to one in a weekend series, they averaged less than 9,000 spectators in a stadium that holds nearly 45,000. With their noses out of joint because of the Braves' decision to leave, Milwaukee county supervisors last week scorned Owner William Bartholomay's $500,000 offer to let the team blow town, thus dooming the Braves to lame-duck along in the ghostly silence of Milwaukee County Stadium, winning games and whistling Dixie...