Word: finney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Hollywood was eying television with deep interest: ¶ The first top-rank movie star to get into TV on a contract basis was Oscar Winner Ronald Colman. For an undisclosed sum, said Producer Ben Finney, Colman had agreed to narrate and act in 26 half-hour telefilms: 13 Charles Dickens stories, and 13 by Robert Louis Stevenson. Colman may also narrate a series of O. Henry dramas...
...York Herald Tribune's Bert Andrews, who forced the State Department to modify its high-handed security rules on its employees, and the Minneapolis Tribune's Nat S. Finney, who uncovered the Administration's peacetime censorship plan. Theirs was a joint award for distinguished reporting of national affairs...
Watson said yesterday that he spoke to Borgatti and Paul B. Finney '50, treasurer of the Band, after vacation, reporting the committee ruling and saying that it would be brought up again at the next meeting although he doubted that there would be any change in the decision...
...exposing another sort of censorship, Nat S. Finney, 44, Washington correspondent of the Cowles Bros.'s Minneapolis Star and Tribune and Des Moines Register & Tribune, last week won the $500 Raymond Clapper memorial award. Last fall, Finney reported, President Truman had approved a "security code" under which Government employees were forbidden to disclose stories "embarrassing" to Government officials. The code was dumped when Finney led the press howl of protest. At the White House Correspondents' dinner, Finney had the satisfaction of getting his check from President Harry Truman, who had made the bobble...
...Paul Finney '50 took charge of the depleted bank account at the same time. J. Rosson Overcash '49 and William J. Reinhardt '47 will continue as drill-master and drum-major respectively for the coming year...