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...AMERICAN SPORTSMAN (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). It's man against fin, fang and claw as Bing Crosby and Joe Brooks fish for English Atlantic salmon, Rex Allen rounds up Oklahoma rattlesnakes, and Archer Fred Bear hunts Alaskan polar bears...
Down the Middle. It was Evans who brought on the changes. A flamboyant Grosse Pointe investor-sportsman who late in 1965 began building a $2,000,000 A.M.C. stock holding (now worth $1,500,000), he has been at odds with Abernethy ever since he became board chairman last June. Onetime Auto Salesman Abernethy delighted in hooting that New Boy Evans knew nothing about the business. Evans, for his part, upstaged Abernethy at press conferences, privately complained that his suggestions were being ignored. Friction grew worse when A.M.C. wound up fiscal 1966 with a $12,648,000 loss-its first...
...rheumatic fever, and it affected his heart. During World War II, he was invalided out of the Royal Air Force after he had been accepted for pilot training. All his young life he lived in the shadow of a robust, rich and famous father: Sir Malcolm Campbell, gentleman sportsman, holder of nine world land-speed records and three water-speed records, knighted by King George V. Even after Sir Malcolm died, in his bed at 64, the shadow remained. Donald sought out mediums, trying to contact his father-sometimes, he claimed, with success: "There he was, laughing uproariously...
Many men dream of being George Plimpton: handsome, rich, aristocratic, reasonably young (39), friend of Jackie Kennedy and Marianne Moore, sportsman, writer, world traveler, editor of Paris Review. Plimpton, on the other hand, dreams of being many men. He sees himself as a superathlete-or as several superathletes. His vision is not as remote as other Mittyesque mirages, for Plimpton has found a way of acting out his fantasies...
...year ago, Millionaire Investor-Sportsman Robert B. Evans began buying up nearly $3,000,000 worth of American Motors Corp. stock figuring "what a deal it would be if I could turn that company around." Last week, reporting A.M.C.'s 1966 operations as the auto firm's principal stockholder and its chairman since June, Evans showed that American has farther than ever to turn. After a modest $5,200,000 profit in 1965, the company came out with a $12.6 million loss for the fiscal year ended in September - and in the red for the first time...