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...almost a year, the biggest drama at Paramount Pictures Corp. has taken place in the front office rather than the back lot. Charging that Paramount's longtime management had about as much vitality as a silent movie, Baldwin-Montrose Chemical Co. Chairman Herbert J. Siegel and Broadway Producer Ernest H. Martin (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying) teamed up in a try to take over the company. They bought 143,100 shares, about 9% of Paramount stock, got two seats on the eleven-man board, promised a proxy fight for full control. Last week, however, the drama...
...early church fathers would have examined Adman Ogilvy carefully for horns and a cloven hoof if they had heard his contemptuous put-down of patience, a paramount Christian virtue. St. Paul rated it a "fruit of the spirit" and St. Augustine called it "the companion of wisdom." Saints had it: the ultimate in provocation is proverbially "enough to try the patience of a saint." Sinners had it not: they complained and lamented. The Jews waited as patiently as they could for the Messiah and the Lord's Kingdom that would right all earthly wrongs. The Moslems told one another...
...even training, which means that they could not be ready to play until well past the season opener next month. Last week, in a display designed to prove that failure to eat out of O'Malley's hand does not mean starvation, they signed with Paramount Pictures to work in a movie (Drysdale as a TV commentator, Koufax as a detective) through the first few days of the season. There is even talk of a baseball-clinic tour of Japan...
There have been numerous reports, for example, that the Chairman of a social science department has warned teaching fellows that they will "jeopardize their careers" by working in Social Studies. Through reports and recommendations, Department chairmen may exercise a paramount influence in the careers of the men who work for them. Those who have been affected by this subtle combination of threat and persuasion are understandably fearful that publicity will only aggravate the problem. They have refused to be quoted or named...