Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...movie company will get the Los Angeles station (KTLA), and the controlling interest in Allen B. Du Mont Laboratories, Inc. With Paramount and RKO (TIME, Nov. 8) out of the fight, the Justice Department hoped that the rest of the "Big Five" (Loew's, Warner Bros, and 20th Century-Fox) would also come to terms...
Turning from God and the stars, she looked for other deities. She flung herself into the patronizing worship of the proletariat which came to be fashionable in the early 20th Century. Once she told a friend: "I want to find someone who will tell me just what I must do about everything, and then I will do it." When revolution came to Russia, Anna Louise Strong found her master. Said she: "For me the Party combines all the early gods of my youth...
President Benjamin F. Fairless of U.S. Steel Corp. and Board Chairman Cass Canfield of Harper & Bros, withdrew as vice chairmen of the dinner committee. Minnesota's New Dealing Senator Hubert Humphrey canceled his engagement to speak. President Spyros Skouras of 20th Century-Fox withdrew his sponsorship. Like General Marshall before them, some of Dr. Shipler's guests were discovering to their surprise that The Churchman involved more complications than the pious good work that its name implies...
...common in Europe to have one man both write the script and direct the film. (Rossellini and Pagnol are outstanding examples of the success of this method.) Well, somehow or other, a man named Joseph L. Mankiewiez convinced 20th Century Fox that he could do it too. "A Letter to Three Wives" is by no means a work of art; but it is very funny, and has some value as a critical commentary on the American Way of Life...
...20th Century-Fox's latest over-advertised bid for immortality is a sea story which can be classified as a pitiful imitation of "Captains Couragous." The plot, ostensibly concerned with the New Bedford whaling industry in the 1880's, is actually a dull treatise on child psychology and the problem of duty versus humanity...