Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...white colonial. Just as the homogenized family sitcoms of the '50s became emblems of that "decade, the Loud family's home movies may be the veristic vision of the polarized family of the '70s. So stay tuned, video voyeurs, for the next installment of the Loud saga. Say in ten years, when the prospective grandchildren are old enough to be interviewed. -By Richard Stengel
...accepting Greene's decision, AT&T has apparently ended the legal saga that began in 1974, when the Justice Department filed suit to break up the world's largest company (1982 assets: $148 billion). To settle that suit, AT&T agreed in January 1982 to spin off its operating companies, but since then Greene has called for many changes in the reorganization plan. For example, he ordered that the operating companies be allowed to use AT&T patents and to license them to any manufacturer of telephone equipment. This will mean that the operating units can line...
...continuing saga of Mary Cunningham and William Agee is amusing [July 4]. The games Cunningham played while she was at Bendix are certainly familiar to big businessmen. They have been playing them for years. It is hardly news when a corporate executive steals an idea from a subordinate and passes it off as his own. It becomes noteworthy only when a woman does...
Standing behind a lectern, John Houseman delivers the prologue, and on a June night in 1937, he lived it. It is the saga of a show that very nearly...
...sterile managers? Will William Agee and Mary Cunningham ever find true happiness? Is the Harvard Business School encouraging its graduates to sacrifice real growth for mere asset management? The answers to the above are yes, perhaps and possibly. At least, so say two new post-mortems on the Bendix saga, Three Plus One Equals Billions, by Allan Sloan (Arbor House; $15.95), and Till Death Do Us Part, by Hope Lampert (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich...