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Though ABC is still likely to be the ratings leader for the season as a whole, its November loss to CBS is the strongest indication yet that its era of sovereignty is over. Explains Joel Segal, a senior vice president at the Ted Bates agency: "Minus the World Series and 1978 election night, ABC is down 10%, CBS up 5% and NBC up 2%, compared with last year. This is the beginning of a three-way horse race." Since a single rating point is worth $40 million to $50 million in advertising revenue to a network, this horse race...
...Joel Prinsell Syracuse
...complaint follows a three-year investigation, aided by the confessions of Joel Dolkart, G& W's former general counsel, who was convicted in 1976 of forging a $250,000 check. The charges accuse the company of artificially inflating the value of some G &W assets; hiding losses by shuffling money and stock among subsidiaries; risking huge sums in unauthorized speculations in the commodities market; improperly transferring funds in and out of the Dominican Republic; investing G & W pension funds in outside businesses that benefited the officers; and using company legal, tax and financial services for private endeavors...
...chronicles of growing up. "You who remember how great it was to be a little kid, gang, don't remember how it was to be a little kid," warns Wilson, whose intrepid, chunky comic -strip hero survives a series of boyhood crises. Pilgrim's Regress, edited by Joel Wells (Thomas More Press; 127 pages; $8.95), is a collection of cartoons both secular and otherwordly, selected from the pages of the liberal Catholic journal The Critic. Here a prim stewardess warns a passenger, "You can't read erotic books while we're in Irish air space...
Allen M. Wieder and Joel Katcoff said yesterday they filed the suit in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, N.Y., because they believe that paying chaplains to lead servicemen in prayer is a form of governmental support of religious activity, and therefore unconstitutional. "The state should not take money from its citizens to support religion," Katcoff said...