Word: garlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fire and casualty risks, it paid out some 61% of its premiums in claims, up to 35% in agents' commissions, 15% in management expenses to Cage, who also enjoyed a reported $40,000 salary and a lavish expense account. Living high, Cage took former Texas Insurance Commission Chairmen Garland A. Smith and J. Byron Saunders on free junkets to Havana and Las Vegas in his private plane...
...desegregation decision, Virginia reacted with calm reasonableness. Governor Thomas B. Stanley, a Byrd protégé, was widely applauded for his statement that he planned "no precipitate action," but would work for a program "in keeping with the edict of the court." A commission headed by State Senator Garland Gray produced a middle-road desegregation plan...
...first uncut feature film ever seen on TV, Oz brought the fairy-tale wanderings of a wide-eyed, 16-year-old Judy Garland into U.S. homes for the first time. The E. Y. Harburg-Harold Arlen score (Over the Rainbow, We're Off to See the Wizard) sounded as fresh and enchanting as ever. To kick off the movie, Buffoon Bert Lahr, who played the craven lion in the film, reminisced to Judy's ten-year-old daughter, Liza Minnelli, about the good old days at MGM. If the movie suffered in its new setting, it was mainly...
...Hedda Hopper decried the fact that Clark Gable's contract had a clause inserted in 1935 (before TV was born) permitting the studio eventually to release all of Gable's movies to TV, tut-tutted: "How will our motion-picture theaters compete with TV showing Garbo, Gable, Garland and all the Barrymores in the greatest pictures ever made...
...also done a notable job with old-line performers, spinning them to new popularity. In 1954 Capitol went out after Frank Sinatra, then dying on the vine, talked him into coming over, and launched the Sinatra revival. Since then it has made other "cold" artists real cool: Judy Garland, Benny Goodman, Guy Lombardo, Harry James, Fred Waring. Capitol's reward: 1955 sales soared 25% over 1954 to a record $21,308,633, and profits spiraled...