Word: robinson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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AFTER TIME did a cover story six weeks ago on Massachusetts Investors Trust's Dwight Robinson, the result was, says Robinson, "an avalanche!" Into M.I.T.'s Boston headquarters poured letters from every U.S. state, as well as Bolivia, India, Spain, Kenya, Mozambique-65 countries in all. Last week the avalanche was still rumbling...
...those who still keep a wary eye on the lazing erstwhile king. "Sure." said Broadway-TV Actor Horace (Naked City) MacMahon, "you're always hearing people say, 'Well, Winchell can't fight any more.' Maybe so, but it's like old Sugar Ray Robinson-you know anybody wants to fight...
...House and Idaho Falls, Ida., David W. Preven '59, of Leverett House and Scranton, Pa., Robert C. Repetto '59, of Leverett House and Winchester, Mass., Michael W. Richter '59, of Kirkland House and Great Neck, N.Y., David D. Robbins '59, of Eliot House and Huntington Park, Cal., M. Richard Robinson Jr. '58, of Leverett House and Denver, Col., Richard Sandler '59, of Eliot House and Malden, Gino D. C. Segre '58, of Adams House and Peekskill, N.Y., and Lazarre S. Simckes '59, of Dudley House and Mattapan...
...more than eased the pain of losing out in a power squeeze at CBS-TV (Robinson was passed over for the network presidency, then for its No. 2 spot, executive vice president). Said Robinson: "I will also be directly concerned with the job of creation, a thing I was getting away from at CBS." A short, suave, Brown-educated ('27) emigre from Madison Avenue, "Hub" Robinson has long believed in the motto "Mass with Class." and at CBS he went far toward making it work. He was responsible for Playhouse 90, the Phil Silvers Show, Twentieth Century. He prompted...
Always a booster of network-created programs, Robinson might be expected to feel uneasy about his defection to the growing ranks of packagers-except that his package will be so big as to constitute something of a network itself. As boss of Hubbell Robinson, Jr. Associates. Inc. he intends to try everything possible-musicals, 90-minute dramas, special events, tape and film shows from all over the world. Since he will own all the shows himself and will continue to profit from their residual income long after he pockets his hefty salary checks, Hub Robinson has latched onto a classy...