Word: cohn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...KING COHN by Bob Thomas. 381 pages. Putnam...
Gazing at the miles of neighboring urban sprawl and walking through the TV treadmills of Desilu and Warner's, the casual visitor to Hollywood will find it difficult to believe that it was once the habitat of Cro-Magnon man. His name was Harry Cohn, president and production head at Columbia Studios, and he flourished during the movies' Pleistocene epoch-circa A.D. 1930-58-subsisting on the backbones of executives and the egos of movie stars. When he died in 1958, more than 2,000 people turned out for his funeral, prompting Red Skelton to compose the most...
...After Cohn's funeral, other obituaries were added: "He was a song plugger and a louse," said Comedian Lou Holtz. "He never learned how to live," said Samuel Goldwyn. "He was," said Hedda Hopper, "a sadistic son of a bitch...
Where this can lead is clear from the case of Lawyer Driscoll, 39, one of Roy Cohn's law partners, who was tried last month for having "willfully failed" to file any federal tax returns for three years in which he grossed...
Banded together as the Metropolitan Independent Dodge Dealers Association, the auto retailers claimed to represent $60 million a year in sales, 5% of Dodge's total. They hired a pressagent, and as their lawyer they retained none other than Roy M. Cohn. Among their complaints: in its zeal to sell cars, Dodge has not only franchised too many dealers, but has unfairly gone into competition with established dealers through company-financed outlets...