Word: aubrey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outside eye, this chariot full of gold seems to be hauled by a troika of executives, and there is considerable uncertainty as to who is lead horse. There is handsome, coldly decisive James Aubrey, president of the CBS-TV network, who last week anted up $28.2 million for TV rights for the 1964 and 1965 National Football League regular games, outbidding both NBC and ABC. There is Dr. Frank Stanton, who is president of Columbia Broadcasting System-in which Aubrey's CBS-TV is only one of seven divisions (CBS Radio, Columbia Records, etc.). Unquestioned boss man is William...
...just looking out from a photograph with a coolly amiable glance that makes men instinctively straighten their ties. Because she reads widely and far more than he has time to, he seems to look to her for literary judgments in much the way he depends on men like Jim Aubrey for first opinions about new gumshoes, comedians and hillbillies. The Paleys have been married for 16 years. Each was married before and contributed two children to the new family, and they have had two more: 15-year-old William Jr. and Kate...
...irascible bounder who only lets in people he likes. Everybody wants to be liked by Dominick, but he stands in his doorway before a cavern of empty tables and announces that he is booked solid. He lets Jack Lemmon in, and Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., and Jim Aubrey, president...
Hugh Edwards' portrayal of Piggy as a plodding unwanted little boy is realistic in every gesture and expression. Despite a few awkward movements, Tom Chapin presents a realistic Jack (the bully who becomes a beast). The part of Ralph--the nice, normal boy -- offers fewer striking characteristics; James Aubrey is, however, a believably nice, normal boy. Although a little of their ad libbing seems forced, the crowd of boys generally reacts realistically...
With Fox trembling from operating losses that reached $22.5 million last year, the Wall Street directors had insisted that the studio was in need of new, hard-nosed leadership-someone like James Aubrey, who made so much money at CBS. Wrong, said Zanuck. What Fox needed was a generalissimo who was also a moviemaker...