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...Murray studios in 61 other U.S. cities are owned independently (mostly by ex-New York instructors), operated under a franchise system through which Murray gets 10% of the gross. Last year all this paid Murray and his wife a net profit of $500,000. This year he hopes to boost his gross to a record...
...Senate, Harry Truman narrowly escaped another setback to presidential prestige. This time, it was on his nomination of Raymond S. McKeough (rhymes with Reo), ex-New Deal Congressman from Illinois and onetime OPA official, to the U.S. Maritime Commission. The Senate Commerce Committee had turned thumbs down, because McKeough was still a paid ($10,000-a-year) director for C.I.O.'s P.A.C. The Administration took the fight to the floor...
Married. John Erskine, 65, best-selling romantic satirist (Adam & Eve, Influence of Women - And Its Cure); and Helen Worden, 49, journeywoman-writer and ex-New York World-Telegram reporter; he for the second time, she for the first; in Albuquerque, N.M., three days after his Reno divorce from Pauline Ives Erskine...
...December, 1921, when these and other pioneer cinemagnates asked Postmaster General William Harrison Hays to become their leader at a salary of $100,000 a year. Since his acceptance a month later, Will Hays has achieved what Raymond Moley considers a marvelous record of industrial statesmanship. In this history, ex-New Dealer Moley mainly confines himself to an objective, minutely detailed recitation of facts and figures, but an introduction clearly states his point: cinema's self-regulation is a splendid example of how business can stay out of the government's "paralyzing" clutches...
Dogface Soldier was written in 1942 by two Long Beach, N.Y. soldiers, both strangers to Tin Pan Alley : Corporal Bert Gold, 27, onetime Manhattan movie-theater manager, now at Dale Mabry Field, Fla., and Lieut. Ken Hart, an ex-New York Times correspondent with the A.A.F. in Panama. Composer Gold confesses: "I banged out the theme with one finger and we called in a professional to do the arrangement. He was the man with the education and the man who got the $5." Technically, he characterizes his work as "a beat-up, old-fashioned style, spontaneous-sounding ballad...