Word: ben
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unspeakable hijacking." Examples: last year Playhouse go produced The Helen Morgan Story just in time to capitalize on Warner Brothers' Helen Morgan Story, and this month TV Producer David Susskind announced plans for a $400,000 quickie that would beat the release of MGM's $12.5 million Ben Hur. Said Wald: Hollywood ought to fight back with movies that "in a tasteful manner will show their vast world audiences the disadvantages of buying, using or owning" products made by sponsors of offending TV shows...
Near week's end Producer Susskind withdrew plans for his TV Ben Hur. Still in the works for CBS's U.S. Steel Hour: a TV play about the life of Sigmund Freud, anticipating a planned movie. The odds are nicely balanced. While the movie makers have Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre to write the script, TV has Farley Granger to play Professor Freud...
...forcibly improved through stern discipline. In 1956 he was socked with a $500 fine (later reduced to $250) for throwing his glove, stalking off the field and out of the park in disgust at an umpire's call. Last year, after a tongue-lashing from Wichita Manager Ben Geraghty for not trying hard enough, Jay took hold and won his last six straight. Since becoming ti Milwaukee starter this June, 23-year-old Jay won seven, including three shutouts, and lost four. Last week, with relief help from Spahn, he shut out Cincinnati with...
Last week, after almost two months of photography and tailing suspects, the police struck, in Paris and in half a dozen other northern cities. The bag was impressive: some 30 people, ranging from Mohammed ben Aissi, who, police claim, was the head of F.L.N.'s Region No. 3 (northeastern France), to a 24-year-old Moslem girl who was a philosophy student at the Sorbonne, to a civil servant who worked in the French social security office in Lille, had access to employment rolls and was thus able to supply the names of Moslem workers who could be forced...
Gone from the list of leading money winners are the grand old tournament veterans-Sam Snead, 44, Ben Hogan, 46, Jimmy Demaret, 48, Lloyd Mangrum, 44, Byron Nelson, 46, Gary Middlecoff, 37. Still fine golfers, they now find it easier to make big money on their reputations. They earn up to $100,000 a year endorsing a manufacturer's golf clubs and balls, drawing royalties on every club sold bearing their name, holding down cushy jobs at swank country clubs, where they charge up to $50 a lesson. For a further fee, they sing the praises of cigarettes, fishing...