Word: graveses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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He spent a year at the tool plant, learning the business thoroughly. Then he turned it over to his executives (he could always quiz and harry them by telephone) and went to Hollywood. Since boyhood, fascinated by the movies, he had jotted down ideas for scripts in a notebook. He...
Hollywood laughed when it heard that this young upstart wanted to make pictures himself. His actor friend, Graves, had a terrific idea for a script-about a Bowery bruiser who adopts a baby. Hughes was impressed, laid out $50,000. This picture, Swell Hogan, was such an arrant turkey that...
Biggest & Fastest. All this is a far cry from the elevator seen by New Yorkers at the Crystal Palace Exhibition in 1853. The inventor, a New England master mechanic named Elisha Graves Otis, rode up & down in it, occasionally making the crowd gasp by cutting the elevator's rope...
Judy Graves, the wistfully adolescent heroine of Junior Miss, was a smash in the New Yorker, on Broadway and in the movies, but radio audiences have always found her dull. Last week, after two dismal airflops, she was back for a third, determined try. And it looked as though the...
"But a Nice Pest." The trouble with the first two radio versions was that they strayed too far from the original of Sally Benson's bobbysoxer. The first try (1942), starring Shirley Temple, cost a weighty $12,000 a week, an expenditure that overshot the show's modest...