Word: jacked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last February, in his satiny suite high in Manhattan's Hotel Pierre, Boston Banker Serge Semenenko shook hands with Hollywood's Jack and Albert Warner on a deal. Full of enthusiasm, Jack and "Abe" phoned their older brother Harry in Hollywood: Semenenko had agreed to buy a majority of their stock interest in the family studio and take control. What did Harry say to that? Harry said no, and the Semenenko deal seemed as dead as dozens of others that have swirled briefly in Variety headlines in the five years since the Warners first announced that they would...
...whether Fabian could be brought in or not, Serge Semenenko went ahead. Jack Warner, 63, was expected to remain as executive producer, but Semenenko planned to bring in new talent and build a team. Priority, he said, would be given to increasing Warners film output; the studio now turns out about 24 features annually v. double that number prewar. After that, continued Semenenko, Warners might diversify into TV stations, allied entertainments, possibly even expand into electronics...
...talks of them as intimately as if they had all attended P.S. 3 in Flatbush together. Graham explains that Blatherskite Bert is patterned after a retired Young & Rubicam account executive, is "a compulsive pain who can't help stepping on people." Hesitant Harry is modeled on Artist Jack Sidebotham, who drew the brothers, but also bears a marked resemblance to Ed Graham. Envious of Piel's success, two other breweries are planning similar cartoon commercials...
...Horace Mansfield Homer, 52, became board chairman of United Aircraft Corp., succeeding the late Frederick B. Rentschler, who founded the company (TIME, May 7). In as president went William P. Gwinn, 48, who has been general manager of United's Pratt & Whitney Aircraft division since 1943. "Jack" Homer, who will continue as chief executive officer, joined United in 1926 with an engineering degree from Yale, became Pratt & Whitney general manager in 1940. Horner directed the huge World War II expansion that made the company the biggest U.S. maker of piston engines for aircraft. Before becoming president of the parent...
Varsity heavies Fritz Schwarz, stroke; Carter Harrison, seven; Jeff Locke, six; Ted McCagg, five; Charlie Atkinson, four; Captain Jack Lapsley, three; Art Hodges, two; Nick Tilney, bow; Peter Milton, coxswain...