Word: distributor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...characteristically pious style ("Beware the Newest Abortion Menace"), the article was a sort of do-it-yourself commentary on a new antileukemia drug (retail price: $4.50 per 100 pills) that ended pregnancy in eleven of 15 women selected by doctors for therapeutic abortions. If convicted, Confidential and its distributor could each be fined...
...other hand, the Brattle labors under tremendous handicaps, of which its size, the lack of public spirit among the motion picture companies, and nitrate film are perhaps the biggest. Because it seats only about 350 people, the Brattle cannot afford to pay the prices asked by distributors of some of the major foreign films, which these days are almost as costly as the first-run Hollywood products. Most such distributors would rather hold the film for years in the hope that it will be bought by one of the big Boston art theatres, which can offer a hundred times...
...left-wing New Republic, which is written and edited for a discerning few (circ. 29,453), had bad news last week for the minority-within-a-minority who buy the magazine on newsstands. In a full-page advertisement, the magazine informed readers that American News Co., its longtime newsstand distributor, had decided to drop the New Republic because it is "not edited for a mass circulation." Retorted American News Vice President Herbert Frilen: "The New Republic was only selling 2,000 copies on newsstands nationally. Not only that: there was the cost of handling returns, more than...
Denounced from the pulpit by New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman as "revolting" and "morally repellent."* Baby Doll ran into its biggest snarl in Providence. The police snipped half a dozen scenes before they would permit it to be shown. Warner Bros., the film's distributor, threatened to sue the exhibitor if he showed the cut version, but he hung out his "For Adults Only" shingle and began running it anyway. Roman Catholic Bishop Russell J. McVinney of Providence urged his flock to abide by the Legion of Decency's ban against the picture even...
...discovery, made in 1953, caused little stir until a fortnight ago when Lindley's publicity-wise Shell Petroleum distributor got the press interested. Reporters and scholars flocked to the site. Sir Albert Richardson, president of the Royal Academy, traveled down to view the discovery, enthusiastically pronounced the paintings "unique." Said Egmont Lind, art restorer of Denmark's National Museum: "They are the only early wall paintings I have seen in England that have not been touched, apart from the deliberate disfigurement since the day they were painted...