Word: tomlinson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tubby little man in the front row was so short that his primly polished brown shoes barely touched the floor. Eyes blinking behind rimless glasses, he strained last week to catch every word at the Senate Communications Subcommittee hearing. There was much at stake for Homer A. Tomlinson, 66, the general overseer of the Church of God sect and self-proclaimed king of the world. He intends to run for President of the U.S. again in 1960 (his big white Panama campaign hat was at his side), and the subcommittee was struggling to find a way to keep Homer...
Died. H. M. (for Henry Major) Tomlinson, 84, self-taught, world-renowned English novelist (Gallions Reach), Conrad-like chronicler of his own seafaring adventures (The Sea and the Jungle) and essayist (A Mingled Yarn), onetime (World War I) correspondent (for the London Daily News) and (1917-23) literary editor (of the Nation and Athenaeum) ; in London...
...angriest running battle for control of a major U.S. movie company reached a climax last week. At a special stockholders' meeting, the management of Hollywood's infirm old lion, Loew's Inc., owners of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, outvoted the forces of Millionaire Canadian Contractor Joseph Tomlinson, Loew's biggest (5%) and unhappiest stockholder. By 3,449,446 ballots to 519,435, shareholders gave President Joseph R. Vogel a solid grip on his board of directors by increasing its membership from 13 to 19. Then they voted in nine management nominees to fill ten empty seats...
...shares outstanding. Yet last week they voted only 150,000 shares for the rebel cause. A Lehman-Lazard spokesman contended that the two firms can still control approximately 3,000,000 shares. But they do not appear to want to lead a proxy fight themselves, nor do they support Tomlinson's bid to power. Actually, the bankers aimed only to joggle Loew's management by placing more real movie pros on the board; in this case their choice was Briskin...
...very bad." Wall Street buzzes that the company had to borrow $5,000,000 recently to meet payrolls, that its moviemaking operations are losing $1,000,000 a month, and that Loew's may be forced to pass its usual 25? cash dividend this quarter. Said Millionaire Tomlinson, who sees his $5,000,000 investment in Loew's growing slimmer and slimmer: "I may have made mistakes. But my biggest mistake was to buy into this company...