Word: damns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minute," roared Lawyer Sam Sears, an unlit cigarette dangling as always from a corner of his mouth. "Don't talk. Not a word." Goldfine stood silent, looking embarrassed. A reporter got scolded by Sears for insisting on questions. Snapped the reporter: "I'll say what I damn please." Then Goldfine read his statement for the actual filming (Tex McCrary had neglected to remove an empty highball glass and a used Old-Fashioned from the table). Goldfine muffed his lines, had to try again. "A little smile," urged son Horace. Goldfine smiled-a little...
...told George the instant it passed," said Snedden later, "but damn it, he winked or signaled to someone, and the word got out to the newsroom and the streets. Sirens started blowing, horns honking, people shrieking and yelling. It cost me 20 minutes in long-distance time just waiting and fiddling with my hearing aid until things quieted down enough for me to give George the details for the special edition. It was probably the happiest money I've ever wasted in my life...
...expensive, highly modern press capable of handling a press run of 200,000 (his present circulation is only 9,495), now turns out some of the handsomest newspaper color work in the nation. Publisher Snedden will not say how much money he has spent on his crusade ("Too damn much-just ask my creditors"), but he doesn't really care. Says he contentedly: "From a strictly business standpoint, I'm reasonably sure I'll be getting that money back in due time. If not, I've had more than my money's worth...
...rambunctious Mike (TIME, March 31) at a Hollywood press conference called to announce her next screen role: a budding beauty queen in the comedy Busman's Holiday. The producers: plucky Liz and her stepson, Mike Todd Jr., 28, who nervously flaunted some of the old man's damn-the-torpedoes financial bazaz: "Cost? We'll spend as much as it takes...
...which has no such involvement, admits it is not boosting color at the moment, has in fact cut its color programs nearly in half in the last year. Explained CBS Vice President Richard S. Salant: "There's no public demand and no advertiser interest. Nobody gives a damn now. Suddenly, some day, color TV will blossom. We guessed wrong when we thought it would come much sooner." ABC has no color programs at all, and no plans to mount any in the near future...