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...named by TIME as one of 200 future American leaders. He left Polaroid to head Green Giant Co. Under his direction, the Chaska, Minn., food processor bounded from $293 million annual sales to $485 million in 1978, when it merged with Pillsbury. The 6-ft. 3-in. Wyman, a Phi Beta Kappa at Amherst College (he wrote his senior thesis on the poetry of William Butler Yeats), scarcely concealed from friends and executive recruiters that he was tired of being No. 2 at Pillsbury...
Just two weeks after sacking his last heir apparent, CBS's founder and chairman, William Paley, has found yet another - the fifth CBS president in ten years and the third in less than four years. Paley's newest anointed: Thomas H. Wyman, vice chairman of Pillsbury Co. The new chief executive was wooed by a deal that sounded like the signing of a major league pitching star - a $1 million bonus plus a three-year contract for $800,000 annually...
...Wyman, 50, has spent a nervous career waiting for several top jobs. From 1965 to 1975 he was an executive at Polaroid and was once thought to be the likely successor to Founder Edwin H. Land...
Uneasy lies the head of the heir apparent at CBS, however. Paley, 78, suffers from the virus so common among corporate founding fathers: an inability to turn over control of the firms they built to younger managers. Nonetheless, Wyman insisted last week, "I don't have the kind of anxiety that everyone feels I should have...
...Newsweek researcher and later a Detroit Free Press reporter before joining the Globe as a feature writer in 1967. The Globe let her write a few opinion pieces and in 1972 made her a regular columnist, first in the Living section and then on the editorial page. Says Anne Wyman, the Globe's editorial-page editor: "At the beginning, I thought she was rather shrill. She's become much more thoughtful, much more serious, also much more compassionate." Goodman is not a columnist who strives for Delphic detachment. "You can't be an anonymous, amorphous 'voice...