Word: bankrupts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Matthew Michael Fox, 53, Hollywood's own version of the wheeler-dealer, who in the early 1940s turned nearly bankrupt Universal Pictures into a $7,000,000-a-year profitmaker by luring away stars from other studios, made a further killing by selling old movies to TV, later gained control of Skiatron, which pioneered pay TV, and finally went international in 1948 by persuading the newborn Republic of Indonesia to make him its U.S. trade broker, a deal involving $150 million a year before it collapsed in 1950; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Oscar Homolka sets the tone as the crusty old Thane of Skandia, a bankrupt shipbuilder with a voice like a rockslide. Searching for the legendary Golden Bell, a thing of booty "as tall as three men, and cast by the monks of Byzantium," Homolka's sons Richard Widmark and Russ Tamblyn steal the Norse King's funeral ship as well as his shapely daughter (Yugoslavia's Beba Loncar), and head south. All that stands in their way is a mutinous crew, a maelstrom and Sidney Pokier, a Moorish prince. He, too, dreams of the golden "Mother...
After the Wisconsin primary, this strategy is bankrupt. Wallace received disturbingly heavy support from Milwaukee's workers; the trade-unionists of Gary will probably behave similarly in the Indiana primary. Furthermore, white suburbanites, both the very rich and those on the lip of Milwaukee's industrial area, gave Wallace many votes. The white revolt has materialized, dashing liberal hopes for a "crisis of conscience" or an interracial alliance of the urban lower classes...
...Home owners and small businessmen with mortgages were teetering on financial ruin. Banks, which hold about $300 million in deposits, feared a run of serious proportions. Said Anchorage City Councilman Sewell Faulkner: "I'd hate to think how many hundreds of people in Anchorage are bankrupt right now." In Seward, where 90% of the economy simply crumbled, City Manager William Harrison told newsmen: "Fellows, we're in a hell of a mess." He tried to read a news release; his voice broke, and he wept. "It's going to take a long time to recover," he said...
Segal's mummies occupy an environment with real objects-a car door, a Coke machine, or a false house front. For a future sculpture, he recently bought a genuine phone booth and took it to his studio, which is on a New Jersey chicken farm that he went bankrupt running. Authentic environments with plaster people raise "questions about the nature of the real object, and of relationships between human beings...