Word: gams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Amusing & Exciting. The deals are as profitable to writers as they are to Booker. Under British tax laws, an unincorporated writer can keep only about $20,000 out of $70,000 in income. Even if they incorporate themselves, as Miss Christie did in 1955, the gam is only another $20,000, and earnings must be distributed and taxed. Under Booker's corporate shield, tax savings are higher and earnings can accumulate as capital. Booker, which pays its stable fixed salaries, also negotiates film rights and merchandise tie-ins, thereby leaves them free to write-and make more money...
Last week Gardner redeemed his prom ise by accepting the chairmanship of the national Urban Coalition, an amal gam of leaders from business, labor, local government, religious and civil rights organizations that was formed to attack the civic problems highlighted by the Newark and Detroit riots...
...first play from scrimmage, the 1959 team's rushing yardage mark turned to dust. By the end of the gam,e Harvard had piled up an eight-game total of 2203 yards, eclipsing the old record...
...self-pity and a maundering facility with cosmic clichés ("In my opinion the wickedest and unworthiest of men are generally the most rewarded"). He shows little understanding of his venomous pupil, perhaps because Sheean's Nero is not a character at all but a dim amal gam of perfumes, painted lips and libido. In all, Sheean has taken one of history's wise men living in one of its most scandalous eras and produced a dry tract full of petty non sequiturs...
...stove ad. Then she got a job answering the phone for Richard Diamond, private eye. No one who saw her in the part will ever forget her, though he could not possibly remember her face. As sultry-voiced Sam, she was never seen above the thigh. And that shortskirted gam bit got her an audition for the part of Danny Thomas' daughter. She missed, but when Producer Thomas was looking for a wife for Van Dyke the next year, he remembered her. How come he hadn't chosen her the first time? "Because, my darling," explained Thomas, "with...