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...Westport, Conn...
...accused Buckley of misusing his position as chairman of the publicly owned Starr Broadcasting Group, Inc., a Westport, Conn., firm owning radio and TV stations throughout the U.S. The charge was that he arranged to have the company bail him and three partners out of a bad investment in some Texas movie theaters by having Starr buy the theaters. Rather than fight the charge, Buckley signed a tough consent decree, saying :hat he wanted to avoid costly litigation. The decree requires him to surrender Starr stock worth more than $600,000 to a court-administered fund that may be distributed...
...show has undergone much doctoring since it originated in the Westport Playhouse; whether it can run for five years, or for five days, remains to be seen. At the Colonial Theater...
...skill contests, she warns, "if you think you've got a terrific entry, don't compete with yourself." She redoubles her efforts in the summer and around Christmas, when she figures other contestants may be busy with other activities. Yet she has nothing but scorn for the Westport, Conn., pilot who submitted more than 100,000 of the 165,000 entries in a contest and won an $85,000 airplane. "That's not keeping the spirit of contesting," she sniffs...
...move its headquarters? The answer, surprisingly, is not some place in the Sunbelt but just 30 miles or so away, Connecticut's Fairfieid County. Long famed as tony bedroom communities for high-paid commuters to the corporate canyons of New York City, such towns as Greenwich, Darien and Westport have become boardroom communities for many of those same bosses: they have brought their offices closer to their homes...