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EXECUTIVE TRANSACTIONS

          Wieden & Kennedy, NY, Creative Dirs STACY WALL and
     MICHAEL PRIEVE are leaving the company.  Wall, who has
     worked extensively on the Nike account, is joining
     commercial and TV production company Hungry Man in N.Y.
     (N.Y. TIMES, 5/26)....Carbite Golf named JOHN PIERANDOZZI
     President & CEO, succeeding MICHAEL SPACCIAPOLLI, who will
     become Vice Chair and focus on corporate development and
     strategic planning (Carbite Golf)....The Canadiens named
     PIERRE LADOUCEUR as VP/Marketing & Sales.  Ladouceur spent
     four years as VP/Marketing for McDonald's in Southern Europe
     (Canadiens)....ISC Publications named TOM POKORNY as VP & GM
     of the motorsports publishing group. Pokorny was Manager of
     the publishing group.  Meanwhile, Motor Racing Network GM
     DAVID HYATT was named VP (ISC)....BOB KRAVITZ will join the
     Indianapolis Star as a sports columnist.  Kravitz, who is
     currently a columnist for the Rocky Mountain News and a
     contributor to ESPN Magazine, will begin writing for the
     Star in August (INDIANAPOLIS STAR, 5/26)....MIKE DIPALMA was
     named Dir of Marketing for Bank of America Centre in Boise
     (Bank of America Centre)....CBA Sun Kings' GM DALE CARPENTER
     will resign at the end of the month.  Carpenter had been GM
     since July '98 (Yakima HERALD-REPUBLIC, 5/25).

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