Word: emerson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Evans, Sam Goldwyn's latest personal find, whose natural, unadorned charm gives an appealing homespun finish to the slick production. To back her up, Goldwyn also contributed the talents of some distinguished veterans, notably Raymond Massey and Aline MacMahon as the elder McCoys, and Charles Bickford and Hope Emerson as Anse and Levisa Hatfield. Their performances, together with that of Miss Evans, give the picture a sober solidity which, in the end, carries more genuine dramatic punch than its brawling romanticism...
Although more than 100 manufacturers were making TV sets, 90% of the sales still went to the industry's Big Eight (Admiral, Crosley, Du Mont, Emerson, General Electric, Motorola, Philco and RCA). Last winter both big & small manufacturers were booming confidently ahead in the expectation that 1949 was going to be a 2,500,000-set year. This spring they crashed into a roadblock of buyer resistance. By last week, many of the smaller companies were hanging on by their fingernails...
What's in a Name? Since Oscar Wilde and Omar Khayyam went to work for him, Haldeman-Julius has also taken on Plato, Dante, Tolstoy, Goethe, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Tom Paine. But the big names are rarely the biggest drawing cards. De Maupassant's Tallow Ball sold only a poky 15,000 copies a year until Haldeman-Julius re-christened it A Prostitute's Sacrifice (it jumped to about 55,000 a year).* The bestselling Blue Books are those on sex, psychoanalysis and self-improvement; Haldeman-Julius has them written to order...
...some of the smaller, more flexible funds made bigger overall profits. A small ($2,000,000) company, Axe-Houghton Fund "B," run by a husband & wife team, Mr. & Mrs. Emerson Axe of Tarrytown, N.Y., led all other stock funds with a total value of $30,638 for the original...
...Silent Partner (Thurs. 8 p.m., NBC). Faye Emerson in a new summer show...