Word: happening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Television has been even kinder to Hollywood, supplying moviemen with such hit films as Bing Crosby's Little Boy Lost and José Ferrer's Anything Can Happen (both originally shown on TV Playhouse), and Rosalind Russell's Never Wave at a Wac (from Schlitz Playhouse). Last week Hollywood Producer Harold Hecht and Actor Burt Lancaster bought the script of Paddy Chayefsky's Marty, also seen on TV Playhouse...
Twentieth Century-Fox President Spyros P. Skouras, there to boost Cinema-Scope, flashed a gloomy picture on the screen. Said he: "Over 6.000 theaters have been closed since 1946. Don't be misled. What happened to those people can happen to you . . . Television is the greatest enemy the industry ever...
...rumors started to bother Miller after the Pentagon announced the Air Force budget cuts last May. Since his Serv-Air Corp. is a civilian company which gives aviation cadets primary flight training, every one of the 720 employees wondered what would happen to their jobs. The rumors buzzed like hornets: the school was closing, staff cuts coming, pay slashes ahead. In desperation two months ago, Miller put up his outhouse, labeled it Rumor Factory, and asked everybody to look at two bulletin boards inside. One board was labeled "rumors"-anyone could jot down his favorite; the other was labeled "fact...
...from satisfied, the mob headed to the Square, the vision of Pogo driving them on. "These things just don't happen, ya gotta make them happen," some body said. One enterprising student climbed on top of the Subway Station and led the incensed crowd in "Tiger Meat." Three more men quickly followed his example and were quickly surrounded by a horde of University Policemen. On Massachusetts Avenue traffic stood still. One by one the self-appointed cheerleaders dropped into the waiting arms of the policemen, and surrendered their Bursar's Cards. These were the Martyrs and the crowd shouted...
Just exactly what did happen is a secret except that two second-string linemen, guard Bill Frate and Bill Hickey recently promoted from the junior varsity squad, were injured...