Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strange organizations functioning in the amusement industry, Pioneer Pictures, Inc. is one of the strangest. Organized two years ago, it is run by John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, 30, and his Cousin Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, 35, whom Jock interested in cinema as Sonny had interested him in aviation. Board members are almost exclusively Whitneys. Last week the Whitneys had made ready for the U. S. public, at a cost of $1,000,000, the first full-length color picture since 1931-8,000 ft. and 1½ hours of 19th Century romance which may or may not revolutionize the cinema...
...Stewart and Robert Benchley, who spend most of their time in Hollywood. In Hollywood, Jock Whitney met RKO's production chief, Merian Caldwell Cooper, who talked enthusiastically about Technicolor as the next great revolution in the cinema industry. Color was the incentive Jock Whitney needed. He and his cousin bought 15%-about $1,000,000 worth-of Technicolor Inc., organized Pioneer to make color films for RKO release...
...years in the same job, dean of U. S. university presidents, surprised no one who knew him. The "university" which Chancellor Kirkland took over in 1893 was a backward little college bossed by a jealous coterie of Methodist Episcopal bishops. Twenty years earlier "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, whose cousin-in-law was one of the bishops, had endowed it with $500,000. Chancellor Kirkland, after a bitter fight in Tennessee's Supreme Court, broke the grip of the Church. Then, with the Vanderbilts behind him, he made himself autocrat. Several millions of dollars from the Vanderbilts and more from...
Catherine the Great was not a Russian nor was her name Catherine. Born Sophia Augusta Frederica, the unconsidered daughter of a German princeling, she was brought up to be a pawn of European diplomacy; at 14 she was sent to Russia to marry her third cousin, Grand Duke Peter (half-German). For 17 years she lived at the Russian court, waiting for the aging Empress Elizabeth to die, waiting-what was worse-for her neurotic husband to make her his wife. The first nine of those years they lived together, and Catherine did her wifely duty as her husband...
When the Board of Directors met in Manhattan next day, four Gimbels (unnamed) were on Richard's side. But Cousin Bernard rounded up enough votes to confirm Richard's dismissal, appoint Mr. Kaufmann to succeed him. Again, Richard met the newshawks, told them the executives of other Gimbel stores were "scabs," then blurted menacingly: "If you boys are going to take sides, better choose the right side." Philadelphia newspapers saved themselves the trouble by discreetly ignoring the whole fight...