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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...himself, became a director of Vacuum Foods, in which he recently bought 20,000 shares of stock at lof a share. He has agreed, at an undisclosed salary, to plug the juice on a transcribed song & chatter program five days a week. (Philco Corp., which has Crosby under exclusive contract, has agreed to let him be Minute Maid's man for a daily kind word for Philco products...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Minute Maid's Man | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...jolly-up known officially as an "informal dance," started our the same way, but the foursome shown above added a new wrinkle bridge. They are, from left to right. Muriel Kaplan, Radcliffe '49, Jean Armstrong, Radcliffe '49, Martin S. Fox 3L and Rarry M. Williams 11. The four-spade contract went down one trick, doubled and vulnerable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Phlegmatic Foursome Flees Frolic, Makes Merry With Four Spade Bid | 10/15/1948 | See Source »

...planes make less noise than an automobile. Under the terms of a federal contract, they are being flown to find how silent an airplane must be before the community won't object...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Silent Planes Circle Over Soldiers Field For Noiselessness Experiment | 10/13/1948 | See Source »

...this month, he has spent half his life in the theater ( The Skin of Our Teeth, The Searching Wind, There Shall Be No Night). He is that rare bird with both screen personality and acting talent. Rarer still for a newcomer, he is getting his own way about contracts. He refused to play pretty juveniles or mannikins, and the dread of being "owned" by Hollywood made a seven-year contract no more inviting than the seven-year itch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 11, 1948 | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

When offers came, he demanded to see scripts. M-G-M showed him a few, but nothing that interested him. He made a test for another producer, who greedily insisted on a long-term contract, then threatened to have Clift blackballed for refusing to sign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 11, 1948 | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

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