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Thurs., April 7 Revlon Revue (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Co medians Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding lead a pub crawl through Manhattan. Ob served en route: Singers Peggy Lee and Felicia Sanders, Dancer Jose Greco...
...Revlon Review (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). One more musical revue, but this one has Dorothy Loudon, one of the funniest females ever to pop out of a picture tube...
Ribald Humor. In his suit filed in a New York court last week, Martin finally explained why: "Charles Revson engaged in a practice of mistreating executives of Revlon, Inc. and abusing them personally to such extent that men of proven capacity who held high positions in nationally known corporations before and after their employment by Revlon, Inc. suffered humiliation and impaired efficiency and left Revlon, Inc. to escape mistreatment. The rate of turnover of Revlon executives became a subject of ribald humor." In 1958, says Martin's complaint, he concluded that Charles's personnel practices were endangering...
Charles was willing to let Martin out. But unfortunately, he explained, there was a problem about Martin's stock, which was tied up in a voting trust that enabled the older brother to control 51% of Revlon's stock and dictate Revlon policy. Charles would be glad to exchange 100,000 of Martin's Revlon shares for the equivalent value in the stock of Schering Corp., a New Jersey drug firm which Revlon had bought with the idea of a merger, later dropped. But Charlie's legal counsel had advised him, he said, that a straight...
Inside Information. Martin said he agreed only after Charles assured him that he had inside information that Schering stock was going to appreciate much faster than Revlon. And anyway, they would informally agree that if it did not, Martin would be reimbursed his $3 a share plus the market-value difference...