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Whatever their fate at Dartmouth, the Harvard skiers couldn't have worse luck than Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald, working on the script of Winter Carnival with Dartmouth graduate Budd Schulberg in Hollywood, was fighting a touch of tuberculosis when producer Walter Wanger told the two scriptwriters to report to the scene for atmosphere. Despite protests, Fitzgerald was herded on a plane from California to New York, and as his alcoholism got the better of him, he boarded a train to White River Junction with much distaste. By the time Fitzgerald arrived, he was sick, drunk and sleepless. And during the next...
...strike had an indirect impact on the large percentage of Detroit's working population that is employed in jobs directly related to auto production. When the strike began September 14, Chrysler directed its suppliers to curb shipments of steel, tires and parts. As a result, the Budd Company, a Detroit-based supplier, laid off 250 of its 2500 employees...
...pale, thin alumnus in a tan summer suit. Well-wishers from the class of 1948 stopped by to shake his hand, but conversation stopped short of his two days of Watergate testimony. Hugh ("Duke") Sloan Jr. was selling his house in Virginia and taking a job with the Budd Company, a manufacturer of transportation equipment in Philadelphia. "What was there to do?" he asked. "I would have just looked as if I was out there trying to slay dragons." Earlier in the spring, Sloan had submitted his picture for the class yearbook, a posed gathering of his parents, his wife...
...Arrara Budd Boetticher who made a score of fifties Westerns with Randolph Scott and is a favorite of film cultists, spent five years filming this documentary study of the Mexican bullfighter, Boring and brutal...
...When he starred three years later in The Three Musketeers, one critic wrote: "He has the voice of a canary, the grace of a swallow and the valor of an eagle." Equally at home in operettas and Shakespearean tragedies, the versatile baritone counted A Doll's House, Billy Budd, Rose-Marie and Affair of Honor among his numerous stage credits. King also starred in several Hollywood films and occasionally appeared on television. He was last seen on Broadway as the host of a transvestite ball in the 1969 production of A Patriot...