Word: peters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gardner, in The Goodbye People, will be mining Broadway's newest mother lode: the cold war between generations. In Peter Ustinov's Halfway Up the Tree, a parent, Anthony Quayle, hopes to prove himself hipper than the kids. The same goes for Jean Arthur, back onstage at 61, in Richard Chandler's The Freaking Out of Stephanie Blake. A household mutiny is also the theme of Keep It in the Family, a London import featuring Maureen O'Sullivan. Another West End hit making the passage: Terence Frisby's There's a Girl...
...Madwoman of Chaillot, by the same team (Robert E. Lee and Jerome Lawrence, Composer Jerry Herman) that converted Maine. And now, reversing the old pattern, Broadway is borrowing from Hollywood: onstage, the movie The World of Henry Orient will be known as Henry, Sweet Henry; Don Ameche is playing Peter Sellers...
Then, 20 months ago, Zender was persuaded by growth-minded directors to become chief executive, along with the chairman's post he already held. Zender has stirred Peter Paul's cor porate structure as thoroughly as the chocolate in its giant kettles. He took flying tours from the home office in Naugatuck, Conn., to plants in Salinas, Calif., Frankfort, Ind., and Dallas. In Dallas he discovered "an unhappy plant" because workers did not like the cafeteria menu and the manager refused to change it; Zender changed both the menu and the manager, brags that...
...Peter Paul's sales and earnings reacted nicely. They went up even faster when Zender acquired for $3,000,000 the Walter H. Johnson Candy Co. of Chicago and its Power House bar and then, last year, introduced a new bar called Caravelle. Last month Zender reported sales of $58,564,000 for the company's fiscal year, a 14% increase, and earnings...
...candy industry, made up of small, struggling companies, is astir with mergers and sellouts, and Peter Paul has become a key target. "We've had feelers from food, tobacco and cosmetic companies," says Zender. Not interested, Zender is looking for acquisitions himself, planning foreign expansions and developing seven new candy bars. For Peter Paul, the future can be described by the company slogan: "Indescribably Delicious...