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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unwilling to miss a trick, Cinemakers Darryl F. Zanuck, Walter Wanger and Sam Briskin hired the United Press "executive leased wire service" for war coverage-about 10,000 words daily on new streamlined, silent teletype machines. Cost per month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 25, 1939 | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

Last month in Hollywood RKO Production Head Sam Briskin sent to Warner Brothers' Producer Sam Bischoff an extra player who posed as a financier, went through the motions of making a deal to buy Producer Bischoff's pet electric razor business. Last week Producer Bischoff sent to Production Head Briskin Extra Players Pat Daly, Frank Jaquet, Bill Teelaak who posed as U. S. Congressmen Martin of Mass., King of Utah, Tydings of Maryland; sent with them a Warner Brothers cameraman who posed as a newspaper photographer. Production Head Briskin posed with the three spurious Congressmen (see cut), blushed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 11, 1937 | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

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