Word: barney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Movies. At a televised meeting in Manhattan, stockholders of Paramount Pictures, Inc. approved separation of the company's motion-picture and theater divisions, as provided by the consent decree between Paramount and the Department of Justice (TIME, March 7). As of next Jan. 1, President Barney Balaban will be head of a new Paramount Pictures, Inc., and Leonard Goldenson will become president of United Paramount Theaters, Inc., operating or owning 1,424 movie theaters...
Paramount President Barney Balaban put on a brave front. Said he: "The consent judgment . . . opens the way to one of the most constructive moves in the history of the corporation." But the constructive move broke up one of the biggest and most profitable U.S. movie companies at a time when the outlook for all moviemakers was none too good. On the other hand, moviegoers would benefit. "Clearances," which now prevent small theaters from showing pictures too soon after their first run, are banned. In many small towns this would give a wider selection of pictures. Among the separation terms...
Died. Battling Levinsky* (real name: Barney Lebrowitz), 58, onetime (1916-20) light-heavyweight boxing champion who fought 560 bouts in a 19-year ring career, once fought 41 times in 40 weeks; in Philadelphia...
...Middleton, he was playing to dine & dance audiences of 1,000 a night last week in Vancouver, B.C. Most of his band, like Armstrong, had been musically famous for more than two decades, though they were only in their early 405; Trombonist Jack Teagarden, Pianist Earl ("Father") Hines, Clarinetist Barney Bigard and Drummer Sidney ("Big Sid") Catlett. The only youngster, 25-year-old Arvell Shaw played bass fiddle. When Louis and his All-Stars swung into West End Blues, Confessin' or Rockin' Chair, it was hard for oldtimers to believe that Louis or jazz were ever better...
Beef & Peanuts. Wilson drives his own Cadillac in from Longmeadow, his rambling fieldstone house on Island Lake, Mich., burning up the highway like a preoccupied Barney Oldfield. Longmeadow is comfortably livable, with garage room for five G.M. cars and wall space for scores of pictures of the Wilson farms, horses, cattle, their six married sons & daughters and ten grandchildren...