Word: jr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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GEORGE C. KENNEDY JR. Philadelphia...
SMELL-O-VISION MOVIE, produced by Mike Todd Jr. at cost of $2,000,000, will be premiered in Chicago by Christmas, then play at 25 to 40 U.S. movie houses, 40 abroad. Called Scent of Mystery, first film will come with machine to waft 40 smells to each seat in theater...
...Street & Smith's owners on some 10% of Conde Nast's stock, Sam Newhouse assumed proprietorship of one of the oldest periodical publishers in the U.S. Established in 1855, Street & Smith prospered with an array of derring-do pulps from such prolific potboilers as Horatio Alger Jr., Ned Buntline, Josh Billings and Bill Nye, bought the early works of Booth Tarkington, Rupert Hughes, Fannie Hurst and many others. Street & Smith writers added many a resonant name to the ranks of folk heroes: Frank Merriwell, Nick Carter, Buffalo Bill. But with time, the derring-do pulps gave...
...Ladder. Churchmen bucking the new formalism argue that the trend is dangerous because it denies one of the prime reasons for going to church: the chance for the congregation to participate in the service. But to the Rev. Robert McKenzie Jr., who tours North Carolina as director of Methodist youth work, just the opposite is the case. Says he, arguing for more formality: "It involves people more readily in the service. In most informal Protestant services, the minister does most of it. Ritual gives all the people a chance to participate in prayers and responsive readings. But basically...
Porgy and Bess. Sam Goldwyn's $7,000,000 attempt to make a cinematic success of the Gershwin folk opera, with Pearl Bailey and Sammy Davis Jr. doing their best to relieve the monotony...