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...Avon, Conn...
...hyperthyroid auction era arrived in 1972, when Avon Books spent $1 million for Thomas Harris' I'm Okay, You 're Okay. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's All the President's Men sold for $1 million in 1974; two years later their The Final Days fetched $1,550,000. Other notable $1 million-plus books include Erich Segal's Oliver's Story ($1,410,000), E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime ($1,850,000), Dorothy Uhnak's The Investigation ($1,595,000), William Safire's Full Disclosure ($1,375,000) and McCullough's phenomenal The Thorn Birds, which nearly broke...
...corporate campaign, J.P. Stevens is being isolated from its companions on Wall Street. Avon Products and Manufacturers Hanover Trust have both censured Stevens employment practices by severing board-room connections. According to former big-businessman Sen. Charles Percy (R-Ill.), Stevens has done a "disservice to every responsible business and industry." Their illegal and unethical deeds are not limited to unfair labor practices; corporate America is finding their company extremely distasteful...
A.C.T.W.U.'s strategy was simple: unions threatened to withdraw more than $ 1 billion of funds and deposits from the bank if Stevens men continued to sit on the bank's board. So Stevens Chairman James D. Finley and David W. Mitchell, a Stevens director and chairman of Avon Products Inc., announced that they would get off the board when the bank re-elects directors next month. Mitchell pleaded the press of other business, but Finley told a different story to reporters attending the Stevens annual meeting (which was moved to Greenville, S.C., apparently to escape the attention...
...journeymen actors arduously bent on not missing a cue while botching up a scene. With their comic earthiness, they very nearly steal the show. As for lofty gravity and the true melodic rendering of the Shakespearean line, Maggie Smith is one of the sweetest singers this side of Avon...