Word: eckman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...both divisions with a .773 percentage and had won nine of their last ten games. The Pistons' owner, Fred Zollner, a millionaire piston manufacturer, has spent gobs of money for playing talent, including Captain Andy Phillip, a backcourt ace, and for his coach this year hired Charley Eckman, an N.B.A. referee with no previous coaching experience. On the bench. Novice Coach Eckman comports himself like a cross between a whirling dervish and a man with the seven-year itch. He says he wins games not by telling his proficient players what to do, but by putting them...
...Stay at Home . . ." Led by MGM's Sam Eckman, nine member companies of the Motion Picture Association of America last month withdrew their display advertisements from Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard and Sunday Express. "We're not going to spend another goddam penny," an Express official was told, "until you change your critics." Chief target was the Evening Standard's Milton Shulman, who recently joshed the plot of Affair in Trinidad (which contains some schemers fiddling with the V-2 rocket): "Launched from bases in the Caribbean, [the V2] could destroy most of the major centers...
...What You Want . . ." As the blows fell, Eckman & Co., still adamant, were uncertain about their next move. Still unruffled and unrepentant was the Standard's Critic Shulman. Said he last week: "I tell them, 'You confuse the whole conception of criticism. What you want is free publicity . . . but three-quarters of the films are designed for adolescents . . . When you put in an ad for Esther Williams in the one-piece bathing suit, you do it just to tell people it's there and available. Nothing I say will deter those people who just want to see Esther...