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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...word for the new season is "special." Although it will not be put to the test until the fall programs start in September, its Madison Avenue magic already echoes through the offices of network executives, clacks from the typewriters of network pressagents. Announced NBC last week: more than 200 hours will be devoted to specials, not only haphazard one-shots, but regular weekly series in prime time (total advertising tab: $57 million...
Just as the professor is about to put a new broom to all the cobwebbed corners and mend some of the broken lives around him, the count returns. He flings his wife out the window, hoping to frame his double, but the cagey Briton, now enjoying his imposture, proves himself innocent and refuses to be relieved of stewardship. The two Guinnesses shoot it out in a cryptic climax that leaves both audience and the chateau puppets dangling in confusion...
This week National announced that Jim Price had got his plants-nine of them in as many states-through a merger with seven other U.S. home suppliers. Seven of the nine plants are in areas where National formerly sold no houses; they put National's network of twelve factories within a 200-mile radius of almost every major market east of the Rockies. With his new acquisitions Price this year expects to boost National's sales to $100 million, its production to 45,000 units-4.3% of all single-family, nonfarm houses built...
...Getty." But his father keeps in close touch on business matters, sends him as many as 20 notes a week from abroad. George, who quit Princeton after only one year ("I knew I wanted to go into the oil business, so why waste time?"), has been put in charge of streamlining the Getty domain. He worked in most of its outposts, was made president of Tidewater in May 1958 and shook up management. "The new broom," he grins, "sweeps clean...
...million in fiscal 1958. Clayton, still the biggest stockholder (he and his family own 40% worth $52 million), tangled with President Whittington and Chairman and Chief Executive Lamar Fleming Jr. over ways to start the curve up again, last month stepped out of retirement and put himself back on the board...