Word: biz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doing technically. John's falling behind. We need him to help us on a lot of decisions.'' Responding to Interviewer Walter Cronkite's questioning about "the strain of fame," Schirra added: "We shouldn't have to pay the penalty of publicity and being show biz in the sense of going to various gala affairs. If it's a scientific meeting where our attendance can contribute to the program, where scientists and other engineers can get some firsthand reports from us, it's our obligation to be there. Naturally, we're indebted...
...nation's largest producer and distributor of TV films, and holds TV rights to Paramount's pre-1948 film library, MCA Inc. is uneasily known in the film capital as "The Octopus." Though MCA's elusive President Lew Wasserman, 49, has refused to admit it, show-biz savants have long suspected that the octopus would like to stretch its tentacles into movie production. Last week directors of New York's Decca Records, Inc. approved Wasserman's offer of MCA stock worth an estimated $50 for every share of Decca stock. The proposed merger, which...
...Reports (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). The program continues to explore the U.S. income tax scene, taking up the proposal to limit expense-account allowances. Restaurateur Vincent Sardi Jr., whose show biz restaurants are favorites with expense-account men, will be interviewed...
Into Shoe Biz. Williams stayed at the University of Missouri for three years. Then his father, who had been a second lieutenant in the Spanish-American War, yanked him out of school for flunking R.O.T.C. and put him to work in the shoe company...
Williams got $65 a month as a clerk-typist and odd-job man. Though he now jokes about his rise "from shoe biz to show biz," he hated the job. He would begin the day dusting shoes, "thousands and thousands of shoes." Nights, right after supper, he would go to his room, which was just big enough to hold...