Word: goings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fellow crewmen adjusted their helmets and inspected their 507-lb. sled. The driver was ruddy-cheeked Stan Benham, chief of the Lake Placid fire department, who turned to bobsledding four years ago because he found ski-jumping too tame. When Benham said, "All right, let's go boys," all four took their positions for the push-off. Once in motion, with feet planted in stirrups and hands clutching straps, they tucked down their heads like monks in meditation and the sled picked up speed...
...Paramount's television interests will be split up. The Chicago station (WBKB) will go to the theater company. The movie company will get the Los Angeles station (KTLA), and the controlling interest in Allen B. Du Mont Laboratories, Inc. With Paramount and RKO (TIME, Nov. 8) out of the fight, the Justice Department hoped that the rest of the "Big Five" (Loew's, Warner Bros, and 20th Century-Fox) would also come to terms...
Last week Producer Selznick announced the closing of his biggest loan-out deal-probably the biggest of its kind in movie history. For a price that ran "well into seven figures" ($1,500,000 was a likely guess), seven Selznick stars will go to Warner Bros, for a total of eleven or twelve pictures: Jennifer Jones (whom D.O.S. is expected to marry this year), Gregory Peck, Joseph Gotten, Louis Jourdan, Shirley Temple, Rory Calhoun and Betsy Drake...
...some reason, Charley Gray became mildly irritated. "The little woman kissing her husband good-by," he mocked. "Everything depends on this moment. He must get the big job or Junior can't go to boarding school. And what about the payments on the new car? Goodby, darling, and don't come back to me without being vice president of the trust company...
...rewards of all your efforts worth the effort?" But Charley Gray himself may be too busy even to hear the issue stated. Like an aircraft pilot who has passed his own point of no return-the point on a long flight where it takes more gas to go back than to go on to his destination-Charley has to keep going...