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During its infancy, ABC was clearly overmatched by its two veteran rivals, , but slowly began to make its presence felt. The network's earliest hit show was Disneyland, produced by Walt Disney Studios in 1954. Later, ABC spurred television's western craze with such popular shows as The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, Maverick and The Rifleman. The network was also home for such TV crowd pleasers of the '50s and '60s as Ozzie and Harriet, The Untouchables, Leave It to Beaver and The Fugitive, some of which are gathering a new generation of fans on daytime and late...
...gaming industry prefers to call good customers. "I'm not denying that he plays golf with customers," Bally's Alan Rosenzweig says of Mays, "but he spends more time with charities and schools." Either radiating altruism or blushing from embarrassment, retired athletes as distinguished as Brooks Robinson, Johnny Unitas, Walt Frazier and Phil Esposito have danced around in crap-game commercials, like so many Sky Mastersons in a velveteen sewer, warbling...
Normally, sympathy-evoking cases like these are prized by personal-injury lawyers, who usually win a healthy majority of their suits--and collect a third of any winnings. But even the most combative attorneys are inclined to shake their heads when the defendant is Walt Disney Productions. Against the huge entertainment complex, personal-injury specialists are hardly ever victorious. The company's astonishing success is the result of a combination of safety-minded care and case-hardened lawyering...
...couldn't, who could? The jury decided it was an act of God." Disney's squeaky- clean employees ("who all wore Mickey Mouse watches and buttons," notes Hovland) testified in reverential tones. Sighs the attorney: "You'd ask them who designed this ride, and they'd say, 'Walt.' " Disney also requested an on-site visit for the jurors, a common company tactic, say lawyers. Hovland successfully objected, so Disney brought the cars to the courthouse parking lot instead. The jurors were entranced. Says Hovland: "Here I was trying to convince them that the cars were dangerous, and they were asking...
...company and threatens to take it over in hopes that the firm's management will become frightened and buy the shares back at a higher price than the stockholders can get, just to get rid of the raider. Last summer, in such a ploy, Steinberg bought 11.1% of Walt Disney Productions. After a long battle with Disney management, he sold the stock to the company for $32 million more than he had paid for it. Says Lee Isgur, a longtime follower of Disney stock for Paine Webber, a Wall Street broker: "It was obvious that it would be very difficult...