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In Dallas, where such Hollywood rooters as Producer David O. Selznick and Cinemactor Ronald Reagan tried to cheer up some 1,000 low-grossing movie exhibitors at a morale meeting, Evangelist Billy Graham popped in with an idea for curing the industry's ailments. Cried Graham: "Take sex and...
Candid Cameras. Until the Leica (a compound of Leitz and camera) was invented in 1914 by Oskar Barnack, a Leitz employee, the company was one of the world's leading makers of microscopes.* Its founder, Ernst Leitz, a German who had worked with a Swiss watchmaker before settling in...
The top-grossing movies last month, according to a Variety survey of 25 key U.S. cities: 1) The African Queen (United Artists) 2) The Marrying Kind (Columbia) 3) Red Ball Express - see below (Uni versal-International) 4) Belles on Their Toes (soth Century-Fox) 5) Singin' in the Rain...
When Wallace bought a huge old desk and moved it-with a secretary-into their already cramped quarters, Lila rented an empty pony shed next to the garage for $10 a month, and turned it into the Digest's office. When Ralph Henderson, a jungle-born son of missionaries...
Sharp Point. Bill Boyle had other things on his mind besides Lithofold in the spring of 1949. As vice chairman of the National Committee, he was plainly tagged as a comer because he was Harry's boy. Boyle was no expert in business law, yet his law office was...