Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What More Do You Want? RKO's newly installed President Charles Koerner saved the day. At considerable risk he scraped the bottom of the RKO barrel to finance the film. But the box-office response immediately vindicated Ed Golden's original hunch which he used in his sales talk with uninterested Hollywood: "Here's a picture that's got real exploitation value. It's got sterilization. It's got a lethal chamber. It's got kids. What more do you want...
Sirs: Apparently, Ed Prichard is still in form-his crack re "drafting the barrel" (TIME, Aug. 16) brought memories of a day in 1935 when Prich and I were classmates at the Harvard Law School...
Tony Galento, the heavyweight who walks like a beer barrel, lost his appeal from a conviction and $10 fine for taking a punch at a cop last spring...
...British general led three hip-hip-hoorays. The 86-piece Army band broke out with the Beer Barrel Polka, Ike Eisenhower's favorite tune. Four-starred temporary General Eisenhower stepped down to accept double congratulations. The day before he had received notice of his promotion to permanent full colonel in the regular U.S. Army. Inevitable Army red tape then asserted itself: he was ordered to an Army doctor for a physical examination to show his fitness for the promotion...
With no capital, the two promoters found 18 tenants: an avocado grower, a man who sold sherry from a barrel, a florist, a rabbit raiser, more than a dozen farmers. Beck & Dahlhjelm got lumber and awnings on credit, built their own stalls, to rent for 50? each a day. They persuaded a millionaire oil producer, Earl Gilmore, to let them use a vacant plot he owned in the Wilshire residential district. Beck wrote radio ads, got them broadcast over KNX on credit. They were directed at farmers ("don't bother to bring us anything but the best"), but shrewdly...