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Last week Green drew a bead on a new target: 20th Century-Fox Film Corp. As spokesman for about $600,000 of the company's stock (which at current market prices represents about 40,000 shares), he charged President Spyros Skouras and Production Boss Darryl Zanuck with "false and fictitious expenses" and "gross mismanagement," filed a lawsuit to break their contracts with the company. Under the contracts, Zanuck is paid $260,000 a year and Skouras $250,000. The contracts also provide for payments of $750.000 to Zanuck's estate and $250,000 to Skouras' if either...
...Building of Brotherhood. As these samples show, Author de Beauvoir knows how to take a bead on a man and bring him down like a sack of hypocrisy. More's the pity that she writes pages of nonsensical epitaphs over her bleeding targets. The chip on her shoulder makes her believe that every man is as autocratic as a Turk and every female as malleable as a slave. Many of her protestations would strike even the inmates of a harem as being behind the times...
...burial jewelry made as rich a display as it had when he was interred 13 centuries ago. A jade diadem covered his skull, and chunky jade earrings lay where his ears had been. A jade mask with inlaid emerald eyes covered his face. Inside the mouth was a jade bead, and a long jade necklace hung over a beaded breastplate...
...case in point. Leanly written by Warren Duff, crisply acted by a competent cast and directed with vigor by William Dieterle, it is a smartly tooled thriller. Best scene: a tingling climax, in which a syndicate killer stalks Reporter Holden through a crowded boxing arena, trying to draw a bead on him from catwalks high above the stadium...
...when unidentified blips on a Civil Aeronautics Authority radar brought jet fighters screaming over from Delaware to hunt "flying saucers" (TIME, Aug. 4). The fighters had shot down no night-flying saucers, but two of them had found radar targets. It appeared later that they had been drawing a bead on each other...