Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Most of the hardy favorites will stay on: Mickey Mouse Club, Wyatt Earp, Ozzie & Harriet, Lawrence Welk, Mike Wallace, Disneyland. To help pull out all these new stops, fledgling ABC has sunk $30 million into a new Hollywood TV center. By the beginning of 1958 the chain will have added ten new affiliates, thus strongly affecting the season's rating picture...
Swaggering Newspaperman Richardson assiduously cultivated his sources, righteously used them to sniff out corruption, solve crimes, dredge up scandal. In 1924, after finding a missing friend for Hearst's famed Editorialist Arthur Brisbane, Star Reporter Richardson found himself, at 30, the Hearst chain's youngest city editor. Then he drank himself out of his first Hearst career in less than four years, spent the next four lurching from despised publicity jobs to outright handouts. Asked what he had done between 1932 and 1936, Richardson once rasped: "I was drunk...
...Hatchet in Hand. Before he ran afoul of the Senate, handsome, well-tailored Max Gluck had made himself a millionaire in a remarkably successful business career (Darling Stores Corp., a women's wear chain with 140 stores in 27 states). He was also a successful Kentucky horse breeder (in 1955 his Prince John won a record-breaking purse of $157,918.50 at New Jersey's Garden State Park). Semiretired, at 57, he decided this year that he would like to serve in a Government post. "I just wanted to do some good," he explained last week. "I didn...
Lately a number of newspapers, from the late James Cox chain's Atlanta Constitution (TIME, July 29) to John S. Knight's Detroit Free Press, have set out to add greater depth and range to their business sections. The New York Times, which has the biggest (21 reporters) and most expert business staff of any general-circulation U.S. daily, drills business-side recruits by Financial Editor Jack Forrest's four-word manual: "Get behind the handout." The result is a flow of economic reporting that widens out from the Times's fat business section and nourishes...
Died. Alfred Cleveland ("Blumey") Blumenthal, 66, Broadway and Hollywood playboy, onetime millionaire real estate speculator in cinema chains; of a cerebral blood clot; in Beverly Hills, Calif. A restless, imaginative developer of entertainment properties, Blumenthal made a fistful of millions by selling Cinemagnate William Fox the idea of a theater chain...