Word: bigwig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many another Hollywood bigwig, the deal with Rank would have seemed enough of an accomplishment. But not for David Selznick, 43, who was reared in the movie business (his father headed Selznick Pictures during the last war) and had come up fast. Last week there was ample evidence that the man who had become rich and famous on Gone With the Wind was trying to move in on RKO, Hollywood's fifth largest moviemaker.* One day Selznick personnel took over the entire top floor of one RKO building. Forthwith, production was stopped cold on three RKO productions to make...
...killers the time had come to kill themselves. Nazi officials and bigwig Germans began to practice the act for which their language has an expressive word-Selbstmord, self-murder...
Died. Charles D. ("King of the Arctic") Brower, 83, rich Alaskan whaling and trading bigwig, famed host whom the late Will Rogers and Wiley Post were flying to visit when their plane crashed in 1935; of a heart attack; in Point Barrow, Alaska...
...First Day. First off, Henry Wallace was left with almost no high-placed Administration bigwig to fight for him publicly. His on-the-scene supporters were all in the New Deal wing in the Senate, headed by Florida's Pepper and Montana's Murray. But they are not strategists. Thus it fell to Majority Leader Alben Barkley, abed in Naval Hospital with an ulcerated eye, to get up and lead the Wallace fight. First thing Barkley did was to demand a pro-Wallace statement from the White House. It was not immediately forthcoming...
Divorced. Donald M. Nelson, 56, special assistant to Franklin Roosevelt, ex-WPBoss, onetime Soars, Roebuck bigwig; by blond, childless Helen W. Nelson, 51; after 18 years of marriage, four of separation; in Chicago...