Word: budd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Would Novelist (Lanny Budd) Sin clair be willing to stand in line all day to see a hit show...
...Among them: Freeport Sulphur which, with profits up 42%, raised its dividend to $1.25; Texas Co., Budd Co., Standard Brands...
...story of the movie industry has long tempted U.S. novelists, and a few writers have brought Hollywood to fictional life e.g., F. Scott Fitzgerald in his unfinished elegy to the independent film artist, The Last Tycoon; Budd Schulberg in his acid-etched portrait of a ratty producer, What Makes Sammy Run? But most novelists who write about Hollywood become infected with the faults they set out to pillory: garish sentimentality and tabloid vulgarity...
Smooth Blend. Just how 37-year-old Wald does it rankles his detractors, who cultivate the legend that he is one of the Hollywood comers who sat for the composite portrait of the fast-rising heel in Budd Schulberg's novel, What Makes Sammy Run?. Like Sammy, he broke into the movies as a hack scripter. Like Sammy, Jerry has stoked his career with a singleminded ambition, a glib tongue, monumental speed and endurance, a flair for opportunism and an enormous talent for picking other men's brains and putting the pickings to work. Whether a credit...
Retiring Ralph Budd was much too full of beans to settle down yet. When he leaves the "Q," he will move into the chairmanship of the Chicago Transit Board at $35,000 a year...