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the television serial, Dragnet, which had Jack Webb as star. He was also a son-in-law of Nate Blumberg, the veteran chairman of the board of Universal Pictures, through whom he became a friend of Mayer.
When he sold out of Dragnet in 1955, Meyer began scouting for something attractive and exciting to do, and it was then that Mayer broached the brazen idea of moving in upon Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The gambit for this undertaking was to pry his way into Loew's, Inc., by getting the confidence and backing of owners of sizeable blocks of stock. With that as a task for exploration, Mayer sent the young man to New York, to make some discreet inquiries through a certain brokerage firm.
There, in the course of his snoopings, Meyer discovered that Joseph Tomlinson, a big Canadian road builder and operator in securities, owned 180,000 of the 5,300,000 outstanding shares of Loew's common stock and that this was the largest single block held by an individual. Meyer sought out Tomlinson and found him to be a rangy aggressive character with a hearty disgust for the condition and management of Loew's, Inc. He was just what Meyer was seeking in the way of a possible wedge, and he soon had a quiet liaison set up among himself, Tomlinson, and the distant Mayer.
Why Mayer desired, at this point, to get even remotely involved in the troubled affairs of his old company will have to be surmised. Revenge might seem one motive. He could have wished to assist in the ultimate decimation and humiliation of Schenck. Then again he might truly have imagined that he could counsel and direct a revival of the great producing outfit he had guided for so many years. He often told friends that he could do so. "If you want to save this company," he would say, "you go to the man who made it great in the first place." He felt he could manage it through Meyer.
And, of course, it could be suspected that he was only interested in getting a salvager's share of that huge company whose physical assets were figured above $200,000,000. If