Word: ever
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Politics was not the only problem that ever bothered Larry Adler. For a long time there was the matter of talent. The son of a Baltimore plumber, he was tossed out of the Peabody School of Music in short order. Diagnosis: a tin ear. He was 13 when he read that the Baltimore Sun was sponsoring a harmonica contest. He spent three weeks teaching himself to play, won, and wasted little time heading for New York...
...Ever since Dr. Ernest L. Wynder championed the view that heavy cigarette smoking is a major cause of lung cancer, he has been challenged to produce the substances in tobacco smoke (or tar) that do the damage. Last week the American Association for Cancer Research, meeting in Atlantic City, took Wynder's word for it that he has now run the number of tobacco-tar fractions capable of causing cancer up to eight, with the end not yet in sight...
Telling Hollywood's fortune is a tricky job that depends on the angle at which one leans over the crystal ball-and everyone in Hollywood has an angle. "Conditions in the movie industry," says redoubtable Independent Producer Sam Goldwyn, "are worse than I have ever known them in the 47 years I have been connected with motion pictures." Says Paramount Pictures Chairman Adolph Zukor: "The future of motion pictures has never been brighter." Last week Hollywood could split the difference, find plenty of signs that the movie industry, for all its problems, is healthier than it has been...
...total will probably be about 250, far below the 600 of Hollywood's heyday, but hardly the output of a dying industry. Twentieth Century-Fox says that it is "enjoying the greatest production spurt in 13 years," in 1959 will spend $64 million on 32 new pictures, highest ever in a single year...
...more remarkable thing about Pelham Grenville Wodehouse in his twilight years is the way the decades of ocean-hopping have scrambled his language until all international date lines and regional distinctions tend to disappear. In a sense, he reflects the overall scrambling of English and American speech ever since the first World War II G.I.s came home spouting such Briticisms as "bloody...