Word: kingsleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same group received hundreds of thousands of dollars in expense money, including large amounts listed only as "miscellaneous." "additional." "special," and "extraordinary" expenses. In 1951 President J. T. Kingsley's expense account totaled $78,986, McGinnis collected $32,250, the chief item being $20,865 for "entertaining, luncheons, dinners, etc." Kingsley's listed expenses included $2,746 for "beverages and provisions" for a penthouse on Miami's swank Ponce de Leon Hotel and $1,290 for membership and fees to the equally plush Surf Club in Miami Beach. The Norfolk Southern also paid...
Murder on Monday (London Films; Mayer-Kingsley), by employing good taste and an intelligent variation on the old amnesia theme, turns out to be one of the season's most sure-handed thrillers...
...Girl Can Tell, a new comedy about a teen-ager and her mother. George Axelrod, who wrote last season's hit, The Seven-Year Itch, will be back with another comedy called Pffft, which he describes as "the heart-warming chronicle of a happy divorce." Sidney (Detective Story) Kingsley is hard at work on a comedy about "sex and laughter" called Satyr's Dance...
...Strange Ones (Jean-Pierre Melville; Mayer-Kingsley). Adaptation of Jean Cocteau's Les Enfants Terrible s, the story of a brother and sister living in a world of their own (TIME, July...
...Brave Don't Cry (Group Three; Mayer-Kingsley) is a fairly maudlin title for a lean, unsparing movie about a Scottish mine disaster. Produced by oldtime Documentary-Maker John Grierson, the picture is based on a real-life disaster in the Knockshinnock Castle Colliery in 1950. It tells of a mine cave-in and the rescue of 118 miners trapped for two days in West No. 4 section between the firedamp and a flooded pit shaft...