Word: guys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have been hungry for, a hunger which has been sated only by the foreign markets of late. . . . I have never been a Bogart fan, but it is tremendously gratifying to realize that Hollywood's evil star system can sometimes be defeated and that an erstwhile painfully stylized tough-guy hero can play an unsympathetic weakling and make him an absorbing character study...
High-salaried executives get a lot of complaints about the size of their paychecks. Recently, 29 corporation presidents got the same letter from a complainant named Guy K. Benson, of Manhattan. Benson wrote that he was a small stockholder in their companies and that he thought their salaries too high; they should be cut. The presidents had no way of knowing that Forbes Magazine had put Mr. Benson, a free-lance writer, up to his letter-sending. It wanted to make a sly test of corporate public relations...
...Charles E. Wilsons (no kin) who boss General Motors Corp. and General Electric Co. flunked the test, along with six other corporation presidents.* They did not answer Benson. But the rest all passed handsomely. Benson even got two to agree with him. Curtiss-Wright Corp.'s Guy W. Vaughan and Sinclair Oil Corp.'s Harry F. Sinclair reported that they had already cut their salaries. Republic Steel Corp.'s Charles M. White, who makes $200,000 a year, made no such concession. Said he: "I have no intention of suggesting that my salary be reduced...
When the Illinois legislature, two years ago, voted $24,000 for a guy named Joe, everybody around Chicago felt pretty good. Joe's last name was Majczek. Not all Chicagoans knew how to pronounce it (it rhymes with paycheck), but they all knew his story. Joe had had a tough time. He had spent twelve years in prison for a murder which he had not committed. His mother had scrubbed floors to get the money to help clear him. When he was pardoned (TIME, Aug. 27, 1945), curly-haired, good-looking Joe Majczek became the hero of every Pole...
...profitably playing Henry Aldrich at 30, would try Shylock. Jack Pearl would try King Lear; Morey Amsterdam was set to do Cyrano. Henry Morgan agreed to do a show, but couldn't decide on a role: "Anything but Shakespeare . . . I told them to get me something where a guy goes crazy. With a little nudge I can go out of my mind quite easily...