Word: agent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...evolvement of MCA from stars' agent to stars' employer has not materially affected the way in which Wasserman runs the company. It begins with personality. He is an austere man, tall and gaunt, with a pale complexion and large, deep-set eyes. He never makes a public speech, and his considerable sense of showmanship never manifests itself in flamboyance on his own part. He wears black suits, black ties, and a white shirt. It is no real accident that MCA's new skyscraper is black, its interior walls are white and, by decree, unadorned with pictures...
Bright Men. Becoming a first-rate talent agent, he guided names like Jean Arthur, Bette Davis and Errol Flynn to stardom. With Jimmy Stewart he started the phenomenon of stars getting a percentage of the profits. He signed 24-year-old Frank Sinatra with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He began yo-yoing Dore Schary, an obscure writer, around Hollywood and eventually installed him as head...
...washing machine or an entire laundry, but medical engineers are making them ever smaller; they hope eventually to devise one that can actually be put inside the body. A hopeful lead comes from a plastic called polyvinyl pyrrolidone, now widely used as the setting agent in women's hair sprays. PVP membranes pass chemicals between the blood and the cleansing water of the artificial kidney about three times as fast as the cellophane membranes now used. PVP has another advantage for an implantable kidney: like Silastic, it seems thoroughly compatible with the blood, and has little tendency to provoke...
Married. Abbe Lane, 32, Xavier Cugat's red-hot mambo for 14 years, until she divorced him last spring; and Perry Leff, 38, Hollywood talent agent; both for the second time; in Manhattan...
Questions & Exonerations. Worse are the omissions and persistent seeming biases. In his account of Russian unpreparedness for war, Werth does not mention that the Soviets received a clear and correct warning of Hitler's timetable from their trusted agent in Japan, the German journalist Richard Sorge. He gives no more than a sentence to the three-to-four-week delay of the attack on Russia that was caused by Yugoslav and Greek resistance in the spring of 1941, although that delay may well have been the most important single factor in the German failure (by 15 miles and some...