Word: goldwyn
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...teau-d'Oex, Switzerland. A Sandhurst graduate and veteran of four years with the Highland Light Infantry, Niven resigned his commission in 1932 and became a New York liquor salesman. Influential acquaintances lured him to Hollywood, where he signed a seven-year contract with Movie Mogul Sam Goldwyn, despite having almost no acting experience. Niven served with distinction as a British commando officer in World War II, returned to star in more than 60 films, including Around the World in 80 Days, The Guns of Navarone and Separate Tables, in which he gave a 1958 Oscar-winning portrayal...
...sharp contrast to the raucousness and drunkeness that the women associate with their Harvard counterparts' reunion. The Radcliffe 25th is "a watershed which people tend to use as an opportunity to access their lives up until a point and to get support from other people," says Roberta Milender Goldwyn '58, one of the 25th reunion co-chairmen...
While many women might feel they are second class citizens. Goldwyn feels the Radcliffe 25th provides a different but just as beneficial experience where "we can establish a feeling of closeness with our classmates." Goldwyn attended her husband's 25th reunion last year at Harvard, and says she does not feel jealous in the discrepancies between the two reunions. While 588 members from the Harvard class of '58 have returned, only 82 members from the 241 mem- bers of the Radcliffe class of '58 have come back...
Scores of famous names flutter effortlessly from Selznick's pages: Anita Loos, Irving Thalberg, Sam Goldwyn, Janet Gaynor, Katharine Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Greta Garbo and Uncle William, known at the office as Mr. Hearst. Banker-Politician Averell Harriman coached her in bridge and croquet, and Howard Hughes wanted her to be his "woman friend" because, as Go-Between Gary Grant suggested, she was a "tested product...
...fund has been around under one name or another since 1921, and it is enormously well off, primarily as a result of extraordinary expressions of philanthropy. Its motto is "We take care of our own." Recent bequests from the Samuel Goldwyn estate alone approach $35 million. George Burns just gave the fund a supermarket, and the fund sold it for $600,000. The big gifts and an industrywide payroll deduction plan that now brings in about $2 million a year have accumulated to present assets of $80 million, including the 47 acres in the Los Angeles suburb of Woodland Hills...