Word: feds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...focusing the camera on a panel of four mirrors, he was able to get four reflected views on one film: front, rear, side and one from directly overhead. The film is projected on a screen, half lifesize. Tailors read the measurements from the calibrated screen. The measurements are then fed into another Booth invention: the Photo-Metric calculator...
Richard Coeur de Lion (Henry Wilcox-on) is passed off as a weak-headed strongarm. He is fed a macaronic tangle of lines that would have choked the poet prince. ("England! France!" pants Mr. Wilcoxon as he paws at Miss Young. "What's it all matter!" And she replies, "One kiss to last through all eternity...
...past 25 years, McHugh has written over 500 successful songs, and he is still at it. At 53, his bald pate fringed with wispy grey hair, Jimmy looks like a well-fed friar. But he talks like a bobbysoxer. "In this business," says he, "you gotta stay contemporary. You gotta know what the kids are saying, and feel the rhythm they live by." To keep the rhythm, Jimmy still drops around to four or five Hollywood hotspots every night, waving cheery greetings to movie stars and bartenders. When bandleaders see him coming, they strike up his latest tunes. Jimmy...
...principle that "the portrait painter should allow no moral bias to affect his attitude to the sitter. The exploration of character should be left, with confidence, to the eye alone. Heaven knows what it may discover!" In Fuller, John's glaring eye discovered a well-fed man of conscience-dignified, amiable, and perhaps not particularly intelligent...
...many of his underlings, fed up with his imperious one-man rule, did. As such smart merchandisers as Walter Hoving (see below) and the Ford Motor Co.'s Albert Browning left, they jokingly formed the "Has-Been Club." In due time they took in 21 Ward has-been presidents and top executives. Not till Vice President Wilbur Harrington Norton, 44, became president in 1946 did Chairman Avery have someone who was ready to dish out rough treatment as well as take...