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Networks and advertisers, too, see home taping as something akin to a biblical curse. Argues AFL-CIO Executive Jack Golodner, who represents TV and film performers and technicians: "Take The Wizard of Oz, which is shown every year on television. If 40 to 50 million people have taped it, what sponsor would want to buy time on another broadcast?" But it is the fast-forward button that has advertisers most agitated, for with it, says Valenti, viewers can "assassinate" commercials while either taping programs or playing them back. Says Richard Kostyra, senior vice president at J. Walter Thompson, the mammoth...
...still makes one expect Moby Dick to swim in after him. Shirley Temple Black, who visited the White House in 1938 at age ten, still had much of the sparkle of Little Miss Marker. There were Rockefellers and Roosevelts and Boeing Chief T. Wilson and Los Angeles Olympics Wizard Peter Ueberroth...
More than other money managers, LeBaron has tried to make stock picking a science. He and his staff test out the performance of hypothetical investment plans on a cluster of Prime computers. Once a strategy is chosen and programmed into a machine, the electronic wizard chooses what stocks to buy and sell without further human meddling. Says LeBaron: "Other companies use computers as adjuncts to people. We've turned that concept around and put the computer in charge." The computer has done well, beating the Standard & Poor's 500 index by an annual average of 6% over...
Heineken, said Friend Sergio Orlandini, president of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, is "just the average Amsterdammer-although with a little money." That was putting it mildly. The portly, quick-witted financial wizard, who is worth an estimated $500 million, may be the wealthiest man in The Netherlands; he is also a full-fledged jet-setter who socializes with Monaco's Prince Rainier as well as Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands, and collects Picassos, mansions and a pride of vintage cars...
...architect of Baldwin's growth was former President Morley Thompson, who began selling pianos door to door after graduating from the Harvard Business School in 1950. Thompson was a wizard at shifting corporate funds around to keep taxes low and raise cash for new purchases. In January 1978 Baldwin acquired United Corp., an investment firm, and in October 1981 the company shelled out $367 million for Sperry & Hutchinson, the Green Stamps business...