Word: successors
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When he announced last January that he planned to depart at 60, NBC Chairman Grant Tinker asked that his successor be chosen from among the ranks of the network's current management. Last week it appeared that Tinker's wish would not be granted. Word began leaking that General Electric Chairman John Welch, whose desires became paramount at NBC after his electronics giant bought RCA, NBC's parent company, for $6.28 billion last December, had settled on his own man for the job. This week Welch is expected to name Robert Wright, 43, the president of GE Financial Services...
...role of Bill Snibson, the Cockney peer, was originally a star turn for Lupino Lane, a comic mime of the '30s. Lindsay, seen in the U.S. as Edmund in Laurence Olivier's TV King Lear, proves an inspired successor. He has mastered the stereotypical Cockney's accusatory inflections, rough humor, feral grace and odd parlor tricks, from a no-hands bobbing of his hat on his head to incessant, playful swiping of a bystander's gold watch. He brings vitality to such shopworn comedy as passing out, being revived and protesting, "Here! I didn't faint for water...
Speculation over what Tisch might do if he were at the helm of CBS is swirling around the broadcast community. First to go, some contend, would be Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Thomas Wyman, brought in from Pillsbury in 1980 as CBS Founder William S. Paley's hand-picked successor. (Indeed, Wyman and other top executives are guaranteed lucrative severance packages if any single interest acquires more than 25% of CBS's voting stock.) Close behind, say insiders, could be Van Gordon Sauter, the president of CBS News, whom many have blamed for the stumbling performance of the Morning News...
President-elect Franklin Pierce took up residence at the Willard in 1853 and stayed there until the day he marched to the inaugural stand with Millard Fillmore. It was Fillmore who then came back to the hotel and moved into his successor's old quarters. Once, when the water supply in the neighborhood became tainted, Henry Willard sent a couple of barrels of drinking water from his splendid well over to James Buchanan in the White House, just a stroll away...
...terse palace announcement last week declared Wassila divorced. The * statement accused her of "violation of the Constitution and declarations made without the President's authorization." While no charges were detailed, Wassila has been a supporter of a constitutional change to make the process of choosing a successor to her husband, who has ruled for nearly 30 years, more democratic. Asked she: "Why close the door on the young and the new?" Instead of opening doors, however, Wassila ultimately found herself on the outside looking...