Word: firm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Christianized? Last spring Maurice Cardinal Feltin, Archbishop of Paris, asked permission from the Vatican's Holy Office to revive the worker-priests under strict controls. Back from Rome came a firm no. Last week, as French cardinals and bishops met in Paris to discuss the situation, the Holy Office's confidential directive was published in Le Monde (after an obvious leak, perhaps from a disgruntled French prelate...
...There is nothing wrong with being a hack writer," says self-styled Hollywood Hack Leslie (The Marriage-Go-Round) Stevens. "I would point with pride to the inspired hacking of Shakespeare, Michelangelo-you can go through a big list. I am a firm believer in Hollywood's golden future, and thumb my nose at those who cry 'Twilight in the Smog...
Stevens confidently expects to turn a profit on Property. "There's been a firm connection between writing and money in my head," says he, "ever since I was ten and my father* paid me a penny a line for learning Shakespeare...
...profits, Stevens can get $50,000 as writer, another $25,000 as director. Colbert draws $75,000 as producer.) Daystar also has a TV production contract with Fox, has an ambitious plan for pilot films. Daystar is also one of the financial angels for a personal management firm that Stevens expects will "bring many young people more rapidly toward the realization of their abilities." Star client: statuesque Kate Manx Stevens. There are deals in the works with Movie Mogul Joe Schenck, and there are plans for a publishing house, Daystar Press. First book: a hard-cover novel version of Marriage...
Married. Thomas E. Dewey Jr., 26, member of the New York investment banking firm Kuhn, Loeb & Co., son of onetime (1942-54) New York Governor and twice-defeated Republican Presidential Candidate Tom Dewey; and Ann Reynolds Lawler, 22, daughter of an attorney; in Scarborough...