Word: holden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ever since he took over as publisher in 1962, ambitious Tom Vail, a descendant of Plain Dealer Founder Liberty E. Holden, had been chafing at the management of the bankers and lawyers who run the six trusts controlling the paper. "They are money people, not newspaper people," he complained. "They wanted to diversify." Then along came Newhouse, who had been trying to buy the paper, off and on, for years. In negotiations that were secret even by Newhouse's ultra security-conscious standards, he finally made a $500-a-share offer. The stockholders, who were dissatisfied with the dividends...
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:15 p.m.). Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn and William Holden in Sabrina (1954), the Cinderella story of a chauffeur's daughter who becomes the toast of Long Island society...
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:30 p.m.). Billy Wilder's Stalag 17 (1953) starring William Holden, Otto Preminger, Don Taylor and Neville Brand, returns to remind television how to tell war stories...
Thursday, November 17 THE CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Princess Grace, then just our Kellv girl, won her Oscar as The Country Girl in the 1955 film version of Clifford Odets' nlay; also starring Bing Crosby and William Holden...
After that, Holden wears one white glove, which flutters pointlessly throughout a performance that may well advance the date of his much-rumored retirement. Widmark typically does nothing to distract attention from his ineptitudes, among them a curious tendency to stumble over words of more than one syllable. He comes on, alas, with a Southern accent, and manages to sayound ez eeyuf heyuz tongue hayud tuhwurned intew a wawatermayelon. Fortunately, most of his scenes are stolen by his horse...