Word: davids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wells called it "a brilliantly successful attempt to put real news into the newsreel"- David Selznick recognized it as "the most significant development since the invention of sound"-and just two years later MARCH OF TIME won Hollywood's coveted "Oscar" for "revolutionizing the newsreel." The MARCH OF TIME has been developing constantly since those early films, and today it requires a staff of close to 100 specially-trained technicians. Head man is Producer Richard de Rochemont, who headed its operations in Europe for nine years and covered the early battles of the war firsthand for TIME & LIFE...
...DAVID THOMPSON...
Harry Truman showed that he knew how to step up and take on a fight. Over the wrathful objections of Senate President Kenneth McKellar, he nominated David E. Lilienthal for another nine-year term as chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority...
King Farouk, touched by a story in a Cairo newspaper, did his bit toward a serviceman's rehabilitation. The story: Scottish sapper David Bell, sightless and handless since a booby-trap explosion near El Alamein in 1942, hoped to start life anew with a tobacco shop in his hometown, Edinburgh. Farouk's bit: he sent Bell 25,000 choice Egyptian cigarets with which to set up shop...
...been offered as high as $1,000,000 for the screen rights. Hedy Lamarr and Lauren Bacall and Greta Garbo have all tried to persuade their bosses to buy it for them. (In the play, as first written, Anna and her family were Polish.) Among the top bidders are David Selznick and Mervyn LeRoy. Yet Yordan refuses to sell Anna Lucasta at any price unless he is allowed to co-produce the picture...