Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is not a touch of the Hollywood-style, burning-eyed psychiatrist about Dr. Will as he greets friends or patients. He has a hearty Chamber-of-Commerce handshake (he belongs to the Topeka C. of C.), looks and acts like the safe kind of fellow a lonely traveler would pick to talk to on a Pullman club car. He lives with his attractive, intelligent wife (who teaches child care at Topeka's Washburn Municipal University) and three sons (Roy, 22, now at New York-Cornell University Medical College, Phil, 20, and Walter, 17) in an eleven-room, white...
...apprehensive Hollywood trying to keep its new films off television? "We are not trying to," grinned Raibourn. "Nobody is paying us enough to make [putting them on] worth while...
Died. Samuel Southey Hinds, 73, silver-haired Hollywood character actor (Destry Rides Again, Call Northside 777); in Pasadena, Calif. A great-grandson of British Poet Laureate Robert Southey, Hinds was a millionaire lawyer who went broke in 1929, turned to the movies as a bit-player, in time became known to millions of moviegoers by playing the distinguished man of wealth he had once been in real life...
...Kamen, who defines his sales territory as reaching "from the Isthmus of Panama to Hudson Bay" (after Jan. 1 Disney's brother, Roy, will handle the rest of the world), considers himself the world's greatest Disney fan. Whenever a new picture is completed, he flies to Hollywood to preview it, begins selling its characters before the film is even released. Last week he had just seen Disney's latest, So Dear to My Heart, was already lining up contracts to reproduce its animal hero Danny, a little black lamb...
...when Mickey Mouse had already made Disney famous, Kamen went out to Hollywood, sold him the idea of letting him handle the manufacturing royalties. This was an aspect Disney had neglected; two years before, needing money, he had sold Mickey Mouse to a children's tablet manufacturer for a paltry $300. Kamen rushed to Manhattan to open an office called Kay Kamen, Ltd. (cable address: Mickmouse), never let that sort of thing happen again...