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...Mayor Jerome Cavanagh cracks that he plans trips to "Detroit's sister cities-Nagasaki and Pompeii." Pan American and Delta airlines recently shifted their downtown sales and reservations offices to suburban Southfield, which has also attracted the headquarters of Advance Mortgage Corp. The publishing firm of R. I. Polk and the Michigan Automobile Club are about to quit the city. Circus World is moving its toy warehouse from the fringe of the ghetto to Royal Oak to escape break-ins (80 in six months), fire bombs, sniper bullets, and what President Sidney Rubin calls "almost continual stoning." Laments Rubin...
This week the Monthly and Fledgling Editor Charles Peters will receive a George Polk award for an article revealing Army-intelligence surveillance of U.S. civilians involved in protests and political activity. The Jan. 1970 article bore other significant fruit: the congressional hearings held before Senator Sam Ervin Jr. (see THE NATION). Of perhaps greater long-range importance to the Monthly's future is that it is being noticed where it matters. It is must reading at the White House, on Capitol Hill and elsewhere in the Government. The praise of NBC's John Chancellor, former director...
...nine men nominated include: John E. Lawrence '31, a partner in the Boston firm of James, Lawrence and Co.; Taggart Whipple '34, a partner in the New York law firm of Davis, Polk and Wardwell; Louis M. Cabot '43, chairman of the Cabot Corporation...
Last week Aubrey returned to power. Las Vegas Financier Kirk Kerkorian, who a month ago won control of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, picked him to be the company's new president to replace Louis ("Bo") Polk Jr., 39, who was fired. Polk had been chosen only last January by Edgar M. Bronfman, whose 16% holding in the company was the largest until Kerkorian bought roughly a 40% share for about $100 million. (Time Inc. owns 5%.) Bronfman and one of three other directors representing his interests quit the 19-man board last week...
Smelling the Public. Kerkorian hopes that Aubrey, whom he met for the first time only two weeks ago, can put new vigor into the ailing MGM lion. Kerkorian wanted a show business veteran to replace financial man Polk, but his choice for the presidency, Herb Jaffe, a vice president of United Artists, turned the job down. Gregson Bautzer, the Los Angeles socialite lawyer who counts both Kerkorian and Aubrey among his clients, introduced the two men at the Beverly Hilton and recommended Aubrey for the job. Bautzer's sales pitch: "Jim Aubrey has a real good sense of smell...