Word: foxe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Offer to Sell. 20th Century-Fox Film Corp. voluntarily agreed to the first part of the Attorney General's suggestion on how moviemakers should divest themselves of part of their theater holdings (TIME, Oct.11). In a proposal filed with a New York federal court, 20th Century-Fox agreed to sell its interest in 260 partly owned theaters. Still to be determined was how many of its 460 wholly owned outlets the company would be allowed to keep...
Among the sayings Moore decided on were "Fools Rush In . . ." (in the window a little lady braves a lion's den to win a fox furpiece), and "A Stitch in Time . . ." (a doll-size girl sews a rhinestone on to a life-size silk stocking). Another proverb, "People Who Live in Glass Houses" called for two figures under a glass bell in the center of a residential square (see cut). The giant hands accusing them from neighboring doors and windows were meant to advertise Bonwit's gloves...
While they waited for the little czar to arrive, nine headliners from the Metropolitan Opera House were marking time in Victor's Studio One (formerly a horse auction barn). Some of them clustered at the piano and timidly tried out the unfamiliar words of the oldtime fox-trot I'm Just Wild About Harry. The 11½-month-old recording ban was over (see BUSINESS), and RCA Victor publicity men had chosen as Victor's first record a Christmas message for Harry Truman...
...cinemoguls are briskly businesslike and determinedly cheerful. Paramount's Henry Ginsberg said last week that the so-called "depression" is largely "psychological." MGM's Dore Schary says with assurance: "We all know what the problems are and what must be done about them." Twentieth Century-Fox's Darryl Zanuck likes to think about the day in the not-so-distant future when television will be an exciting new adjunct of a busier Hollywood...
Furriers were digging foxholes for a long bout with the buyers' strike. Manhattan's I. J. Fox, Inc., biggest U.S. fur retailer, canceled plans for four new New York City stores, decided instead to lease fur departments in smaller department stores all over the U.S. By plugging lower-priced furs, the company-like other furriers-hoped to make up in mass sales for the slump in its luxury coats...