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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mama Says So. Berle's success on television is a curious byproduct of repeated flops in both radio and movies-a special irony for pushy Milton Berle, who has lived his life to feed what he calls "my great want to conquer." The flops hurt deeply and worried him about his appeal to a mass audience. But they forced him into well-paid jobs in nightclubs, where live audiences kept his talents supple. Meanwhile, more successful comedians were falling into the lazier habit of peering at scripts through spectacles...
...mountains of spuds. It would have been cheaper to burn them or let them rot, but that always produced nasty cartoons in the papers, so the Administration went to great expense to deliver them for almost nothing to alcohol-making plants and farmers with livestock to feed. Average check from the Treasury to potato growers who sold...
...from Texas paced the paddock at Florida's Tropical Park one day last winter. "I'll bet twenty-five on the quarter-horse," barked the Texan. A passerby peeled two tens and a five from his roll and offered to take the bet. "Put that chicken feed back in your pocket," roared the Texan. "I mean twenty-five thousand...
Bush cited examples of how food production could be further increased; they ranged from the treatment of cows with penicillin-to prevent cattle disease which costs Europe 5,000,000 tons of milk a year ("and that will feed a lot of babies") -to controlled photosynthesis and improved fertilizing through methods discovered in the course of atomic research...
Meanwhile, in their corner, Screen Plays, Inc.'s impresarios, Producer Stanley Kramer and George Glass, were sitting pretty. On something like $600,000 (chicken feed for a modern A movie), they had made a picture which some experts guessed would gross $3,000,000. They had also delivered a stiff uppercut to Hollywood's heavyweights. Sam Goldwyn promptly bought up the talents of Champion's young (34) Director Mark Robson (who, like Douglas, will continue to do one picture a year for Screen Plays). Aggressive little Screen Plays' next: Home of the Brave, the first...