Word: bigwig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hollywood Johansson has completed another acting chore in Columbia's All the Young Men. He plays a Swede who joins the U.S. Marines to get his citizenship and is shipped to Korea. So excited is Columbia Bigwig Sam Briskin that he hopes to cast Ingo in a western...
...upset about overproduction and a drastic drop in prices. Farmers must sell their eggs at dictated prices to INRA, which will hold back part of the crop from market. Bat guano is an even more ambitious INRA undertaking, first sparked by Entrepreneur Bud Arvey (son of Chicago Democratic Bigwig Jake Arvey), who hit Cuba last spring with a plan to join the Castro government in a $500,000 partnership to scrape the guano deposits from caves in Pinar del Rio and Matanzas and ship it abroad as fertilizer. Castro decided that the commodity was much too valuable to share...
...best stories in the book, Who Made Yellow Roses Yellow?, might draw a bravo from Marquand for its social surgery. At college, blueblooded Fred had got socially iffy Clayton into the best clubs. Years later, with the hourglass of fortune reversed, Fred needs work and Clayton is an advertising bigwig. At a sanctimonious lunch full of bogus bonhomie, Clayton offers Fred no job. and all but admits that one of his greatest pleasures is watching the mighty campus idols of old crash at his well-shod feet...
...small profit margins and notoriously old-fashioned business methods, the launching of new firms is rare. Said one intrigued bystander about the Knopf-Haydn-Bessie venture: "[It is as if] the presidents of General Motors, Chrysler and Ford left their jobs to start an automobile company." Said one publishing bigwig, who lunched with Random House Boss Bennett Cerf a week ago: "When the rumor came up, Bennett's face was a real study...
...labor-oriented Democrats, all but gave up trying to hang failure of the Kennedy-Ives labor bill on the Democratic 85th Congress. No less a campaigner than Vice President Nixon warned that the issue would get all mixed up, could easily backlash to brand the G.O.P. as antiunion. Bigwig Democrats meanwhile whistled merrily, predicted a pro-labor vote that would swell the Democratic landslide. Fact was that the labor bossism issue was a sleeper and much of the whistling was in the dark. Many a candidate would not sleep peacefully until election night when he saw how the crosscurrents...