Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winner of his sixth and last world championship 38 years ago, Slosson leaves his home for Boston's 20th Century billiard parlor every noon. He wears a long-sleeved sweater and limits himself to 200 points a day. As soon as he feels he is back in shape, he plans to move to Manhattan and take up teaching again...
Explained De Liagre: "All the movie companies were on my neck, so I went to M.G.M., 20th Century-Fox, Paramount, Warner Bros, and told them my idea. I don't think the price is outrageous. I'm gambling just as much as they are. For all I know, Turtle may be worth $6 million." As for Hollywood: "It has blown their hats off, but I'd say there's a good deal of response. Right now they're in a huddle...
Four Jills in a Jeep (20th Century-Fox) and Ladies Courageous (Universal) are Hollywood's idea of what women can do for the war and painful examples of what Hollywood, under the pressure of patriotism, can do to women. In the first, Hollywood vigorously shakes its own hand for letting some actresses go to shake a leg on the world battlefronts. In the second, Loretta Young, Geraldine Fitzgerald and Diana Barrymore pilot planes around...
...Adler thinks we can work toward the objective, even though our grandchildren's grandchildren will not live to see it. He calls this "longterm optimism." It is as if somebody were trying to console a weary harvester in a 15th-Century grainfield by hinting that in the 20th Century a mechanical reaper and binder might be invented...
...fire-sale technique, he swung it over from a $4,000 weekly loss to a $6,500 weekly profit. He slashed admission prices, sponsored fashion shows, gave away roses, tried to book Huey Long. Five years after Cullman started running it, the Roxy-handsomely solvent - was sold to 20th Century...