Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dress rehearsal was scarcely finished last week when Songwriter Sammy Cahn shouted to Producer Jerry Wald that the award-giving ceremony of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was not going to fill its allotted time. "You know more than NBC?" growled Wald. "Yes," shot back Cahn. But no one was listening. Next day, when the show went on for TV audiences across the U.S., it was short indeed. It was also pretty bad. Even the early part of the show was poorly organized, unimpressively staged, and sometimes blatantly vulgar. At the end, M.C. Jerry Lewis was left...
...like to hide from them"), a boost for syndicated crime ("What's wrong with the syndicate? Two or three of us get together on some deal and everybody says it's a bad thing. But those businessmen do it all the time and nobody squawks"), the back of his hand for the draft board that rated him a constitutional psychopath in 1943: "Who wouldn't pretend he was nuts to stay out of the Army? I told them I steal for a living. They thought I was crazy but I wasn't. I was telling them...
...necessary. By disposition, he settled on the business side. "Jack isn't any bookkeeper," he said, "and I've always been sort of a tinker." When Jack Knight bought the Miami Herald in 1937, Tinker Jim went down and hammered it into shape. A relentless foe of back-room featherbedding, Jim took on a strike by the powerful International Typographical Union in 1948, kept the paper on the street, set up a nonunion shop, won the battle hands down. (The I.T.U. considers the strike still in effect to this day.) All told, Jim performed so well that Jack...
...Jose Iturbi's Holiday in Mexico. Lately, Previn has been feeling the burdens of age, sharpened by a desire to compose more serious music: "You can't write it in Hollywood. I've had ten years there, and I don't want to look back at myself on my 50th birthday and know I haven't tried." But he would never be happy, he confesses, cutting himself off entirely from Hollywood. There is far more to music. Composer Previn earnestly believes, "than sitting around writing string quartets for League of Composers concerts...
...University of Wisconsin, Sullivan hired him. But to fellow draftsmen the young Wisconsin countryman, with his flowing tie and long hair, was a natural butt for jokes. Wright fought them to a draw, in eluding one brawl from which he emerged with eleven knife wounds in his back...