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...produces four TV series (The Lucy Show, Mission: Impossible, Star Trek and You Don't Say), rents production facilities to 13 others, including I Spy and Corner Pyle. All of this earned Desilu $734,000 on revenues of $18.8 million in fiscal 1966. Charles G. Bluhdorn, 40, the Vienna-born immigrant who whipped G&W into a $317 million corporation (TIME cover, Dec. 3, 1965), sees "great potential" in the entertainment field, which now accounts for 30% of his company's sales. Last December Bluhdorn hired former CBS-TV President John T. Reynolds, who will now work...
...looks it. Though in physique (6 ft., 139 Ibs.) he resembles a patrician heron stuffed into herringbone, there is an impeccably correct bearing about him that says "Beware: regal and remote." His face and grey-fringed dome, all right-angle turns, are a study in parchment over steel. A Vienna-born English subject, he could easily pass as the British ambassador to Paris-a job that he wouldn't mind having if the Met could ever find 15 men to replace...
...they sold out to seemed likely to stage an even bigger drama of his own. At 39, Vienna-born Charles G. Bluhdorn is already a millionaire (TIME cover, Dec. 3), has swiftly built his Gulf & Western Industries into a $300 million collection of auto-parts companies. Last week G. & W. moved to add another by a merger with Universal American, which does a $150 million business in tools, auto parts and machinery. Bluhdorn makes no secret of his urge to make Gulf & Western even bigger. As he handed Siegel and Martin a certified check for their $11.8 million, he observed...
Died. Frederick Kiesler, 76, visionary architect and sculptor, Vienna-born designer (with Partner Armand Bartos) of Jerusalem's underground Shrine of the Book, who is also credited with fathering off-Broadway's theater-in-the-round; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. As tiny (4 ft. 10 in.) as a sparrow, Kiesler spent his life seeking "a continuously flowing world" in such structures as his free-form 1934 "Endless House," which had "no beginning and no end, like the human body...
...wartime refugee, Vienna-born Bluhdorn came to Manhattan at 16, immediately went to work as a $15-a-week clerk in a cotton brokerage house. Later he rose to a $60-a-week job in a commodities house, where he learned the intricacies of that gyrating business and discovered the secret that got him going: fortunes can be made on a meager stake in international trade. At 23, he invested $3,000 and started his own export-import business in a small Manhattan office. Within eight years he had bagged his first million by buying an awful lot of coffee...