Word: davids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Television "is zooming like a V-2 rocket. . . . [It] is destined to become one of the leading industries of the United States; it will provide work for thousands and offer many new opportunities for creative talent." Thus RCA's David Sarnoff (in an American Magazine article...
...more personal significance for Producer Irene Selznick : Streetcar was her first Broadway production (her Heartsong was a pre-Broadway flop). This clinched the fact that the daughter of Cinemogul L. B. Mayer who is also sister-in-law of Cinemogul William Goetz and ex-wife of Cinemogul David O. Selznick, had at last made a success in show business that she could call...
...Squad. Many a newly unionized financial worker worriedly wondered what he had got himself into. The union, apparently as untainted by Communist influences as its ally, the Seafarers, was the one-man creation of bespectacled M. David Keefe, onetime Stock Exchange employee. Dave Keefe had started as a $15-a-week page boy; after 13 years he had worked himself up to $37. He organized the union in 1942, saw it almost fall apart after he joined the Seabees. He pulled it together again after war's end and, boasting a membership of 5,000, held contracts with both...
...still had a problem : he had no pig iron to make his steel. So, he told the committee, he made a deal with Kaiser-Frazer Corp. to trade finished steel for K-F's pig iron. (He also made another deal, the committee found, with Cincinnati's David J. Joseph Sr., one of the big U.S. scrap dealers. For his scrap, Joseph got 8,254 tons of steel, and a tidy gross profit...
Born. To Captain John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower, A.U.S., 25, son of the president-elect of Columbia University, and Barbara Jean Thompson Eisenhower, 21: their first child (and Ike's first grandchild -see PEOPLE), a son; at West Point, N.Y. Name: Dwight David II. Weight...