September 24, 1984

A report in the Finance/New Issues column of Business Day on Tuesday misidentified the parent company of Robert Bruce Industries. It is Savoy Industries.

Wylie Boyle sent his housekeeper on ahead to the post office that wintry Saturday morning in Paducah, Tex., early this year. Then, as he had every day, the 86-year-old retired insurance salesman went to visit his wife, Avis, at Richards Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Boyle suffered from Alzheimer's disease, a progressive, irreversible deterioration of the brain that, over time, can turn simple chores into impossible ones and loved ones into strangers. At times in church the 84-year-old Mrs. Boyle would start talking loudly in the middle of the sermon. At home, in front of others, she would harshly criticize her husband for faults that only she saw. That morning a nurse, Bobby Chaney, heard a strange sound when she passed by the hospital room, as if an oxygen tank had overturned. She pushed open the door. And there was Mrs. Boyle in bed, a small red stain growing larger on the front of her nightgown.

The new leaders of Walt Disney Productions, Michael D. Eisner and Frank G. Wells, said today that they were given a mandate by the company's directors to put the struggling Disney studios on an equal footing with the biggest and best of Hollywood's film companies. ''We want to build the entertainment group back to being as strong as the non-entertainment group'' at Disney, Mr. Eisner said in an interview. ''This is going to be a full-service entertainment company, with a regular stream of products.'' Disney formally announced today that Mr. Eisner was elected chairman and chief executive, and Mr. Wells, president and chief operating officer, by a unanimous board vote.

In the upper reaches of Shea Stadium yesterday, the banners that tally Dwight Gooden's strikeouts rippled in the breeze for the last time this season. The brilliant rookie did not accommodate those who are only satisfied by double digits, but otherwise his last 1984 appearance in New York was a fitting finale. Despite a head cold that weakened Gooden, slowed his fastball and forced his removal after eight innings, the 19-year-old pitcher beat the Montreal Expos, 6-1, and lifted his record to 17-9. He struck out nine batters to bring his season total to 276, best in the major leagues by a wide margin. He also singled twice, scored a run and held runners on base more successfully than he has all season, with Andre Dawson picked off in the first inning and caught stealing in the sixth.

A picture caption in the Metropolitan Report Tuesday about kosher cheese for the needy incorrectly identified the site where the cheese was being distributed by the Metropolitan New York Coordinating Council on Jewish Poverty. It was the United Jewish Council/Bialystoker Houses on the Lower East Side.