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...While serving in the Navy during World War II, Schulberg was assigned to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), where he worked with director John Ford's documentary unit. Schulberg created photo documentation for the Nuremburg trials and personally arrested German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl at her chalet in Kitzbühel, Austria. Following his military service, Schulberg wrote the fight-racket novel The Harder They Fall and had no more movie credits until he and Kazan teamed up for On the Waterfront, for which John Garfield, Frank Sinatra and the young Paul Newman were touted for the Terry Malloy role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Budd Schulberg, Boss of the Brando Waterfront | 8/6/2009 | See Source »

...domestic carmakers - Ford Motor Co., General Motors and Chrysler - had less frothy numbers but still managed to pick up market share in July for the first time in months, at the expense of German and Japanese competitors. Ford emerged as one the program's biggest winners, posting a genuine sales increase for July over the same period last year; the automaker could also lay claim to the top vehicle purchased with clunker cash: the compact Ford Focus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Automakers Give Rave Reviews to 'Cash for Clunkers' | 8/4/2009 | See Source »

...Czubay, Ford vice president for U.S. marketing, sales and service, said Ford already had a relatively strong month in progress before the cash-for-clunkers program started, but it certainly helped. "We achieved a sales increase even though we decreased incentive spending in an increasingly competitive environment," he said. (See the most important cars of all time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Automakers Give Rave Reviews to 'Cash for Clunkers' | 8/4/2009 | See Source »

...Gates' defenders. There was Deval Patrick, the fresh-faced black governor of Massachusetts, who called the arrest "every black man's nightmare." There was Vernon Jordan, noting that the event "tells us that the election of Barack Obama did not automatically erase racism." There was former Congressman Harold Ford, moderate to a fault, passionately insisting that once Sergeant James Crowley realized Gates had not broken into his own home, the officer should have said, "I'm sorry you're upset, sir. We're going to leave." And then, of course, there was the President of the United States, asserting that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Henry Louis Gates Affair: When Race Matters | 7/30/2009 | See Source »

...Mistreatment by the police, however, remains a shared experience for many African Americans. And it's members of the black upper class - people like Gates and Obama and Ford, black America's most credentialed social stratum - who are most sensitive to overzealous policing and racial profiling. When it comes to encounters with law enforcement, they are uniquely aware of how quickly their accolades can be rendered irrelevant. (Read "The Gates Case: When Disorderly Conduct Is a Cop's Judgment Call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Henry Louis Gates Affair: When Race Matters | 7/30/2009 | See Source »

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