Word: hire
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After buying the best material they can find, the Mirisch brothers hire the best directors in Hollywood, then give them artistic control over their films, plus part ownership of the negatives. This has attracted such major directorial names as Billy Wilder, William Wyler and Fred Zinnemann, all of whom are currently at work on Mirisch films. Since, as independents, the brothers operate with a negligible overhead (5% v. Columbia's 22½%, lowest overhead of a major studio), there is plenty of money for directors and stars alike. Even other independents shy from the pace of the three...
Vampire for Hire. Merely to contemplate what Yeats seriously believed in is enough to stagger the modern reader. He had, or vowed he had, complete faith in ghosts, fairies, magic, table rapping and spiritualism. He attended seances religiously, and once claimed to have seen a man in black and a hunchbacked woman fashion human flesh out of mysterious chemicals. At another séance, at which the spirits became very annoyed, witnesses reported that "Willie Yeats was banging his head on the table as though he had a fit, muttering to himself." Yeats sometimes primed the medium via telepathy...
...next three weeks going through the famed Spiritual Exercises of 16th century St. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuit Order. Beginning July 1, they will be ready to teach the theology of the Roman Catholic Church to ordinary men and women-Catholic and non-Catholic-in any parish that hires them. And hire is no figure of speech; each of them will start at $500 a month and be raised steadily to at least $12,000 a year within 36 months. The Cost of Conversions. The project of which they are the advance guard was born of zooming Catholic expansion...
...insistence, they get all the benefits that German workers do, including wages that start at a legal minimum of 65? an hour. But one West German recruiting scheme hit a snag last week. Badly in need of trained labor for his Hamburg shipyards, German Tycoon Willy Schlieker wants to hire up to 500 Scottish shipyard workers who have been threatened with layoffs or slow business at home. But despite his willingness to import a British cook along with them, Schlieker has not been able to get even an advance party of 60 Scots. British newspapers and trade unions argue that...
Skull-faced Actor Widmark plays a carefree American "adventurer for hire" who is offered $60,000 by the head of an international spy ring. He is to go into Budapest and whisk out a man wanted by the Hungarian government: Walter Rilla, a scholarly, idealistic anti-Communist who smuggles enemies of the state across the border into Austria. The story, filmed in Austria, Switzerland and England, turns on how Widmark finds Rilla while dodging the Hungarian secret police and the Russian army of occupation. Widmark also dallies with Picasso-eyed Sonja Ziemann, who plays Rilla's doughty daughter...