Word: agent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Artful Deals. Stein soon saw the possibilities of radio, bought choice network time on which only M.C.A. performers were permitted. M.C.A. spread to Hollywood in 1937, added movie and radio stars to its roster, often by hiring other agents, with their list of clients, or absorbing their agencies. On movie lots, the M.C.A. agent became so powerful that he decided what stars would play in what movies, and for how much, along with who would write the script and direct it. M.C.A. tax men found new ways for stars to save on taxes, notably by getting a percentage...
...former M-G-M Head Dore Schary say that M.C.A. deserves its success because it works hardest for its clients, constantly plans deals to boost their salaries and its commissions. In 1943 Schary had a dispute with MGM, chucked his job as head of "B" pictures. His own agent advised him to go back to M-G-M because he could not get him another job. But M.C.A.'s Lew Wasserman (now president) took over Schary, and in a few hours closed a deal with David O. Selznick which netted Schary $750,000 in three years. Wasserman builds...
Nowhere was the "confusion and complexity" of when, how, why. and if to intervene more strikingly illustrated than in the American diplomatic camp. U.S. Ambassador David R. Francis was an aging (67), old-line Missouri politician with a passion for poker. British Agent Bruce Lockhart recalled that after dinner, "Francis began to fidget like a child who wishes to return to its toys. His rattle, however, was a deck of cards." Ambassador Francis' poker-faced response to the Russian enigma was to hole up 250 miles north of Moscow in the town of Vologda, where he received garbled telegraphic...
...went his pretty 21-year-old wife (or mistress). Three of the conspirators had fought for North Korea during the war, had been captured, "renounced Communism," then enlisted in the South Korean army. They had all been in touch, said the police, with one Kang, "a North Korean agent with rank equivalent to a Deputy Premier...
Color is the villain, but here its evil agent is not oppression by the whites (they are only gently oppressive, and sometimes bumblingly kind), but the hard, protective shell of ignorance secreted by the blacks. The novel's story is of a family festering in such a shell, built of fear and blind religiosity. Don't ask questions, Cille's mother repeats, walling in her children. Don't think; thank...