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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mental Health programs have a definite place in the university, Dana L. Farnsworth declared in his recently-published book, "Mental Health in College and University...
Frederick L. Holborn '49, who has worked for Kennedy intermittently since 1952, will assume his permanent position as one of the Senator's three top aides during the spring term. Holborn currently assists in Government...
...down payment on a onetime burlesque house. Mayer hid the shoddy past of his theater with a coat of white paint, installed an organ, and dug up a religious film called From the Manger to the Cross. His opening was a socko success. The lines of ticket buyers taught L. B. Mayer a lesson he never forgot: Americans want simple, clean entertainment...
...added theaters to his chain, Russian-born L. B. Mayer soon ran out of his kind of films. In 1918 he opened a studio to supply his own demands. Six years later, prodded by Theater Owner Marcus Loew, he merged his two companies with Producer Sam Goldwyn's studios to form Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The ex-junkman confidently made himself production chief. With Irving Thalberg, his brilliant assistant (and the model for F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon), Mayer set about remaking the motion-picture industry...
...Star System. His success was dazzling. For three decades tough, cocksure L. B. Mayer was the most important man in Hollywood. He knew exactly what Americans wanted and he gave it to them, by ballyhooing unknown kids into superglamorous movie stars. He found Robert Taylor at Pomona College and Joan Crawford in a chorus line. His star system, soon copied by his competitors, developed Gilbert, Murray, Gable, Tracy, Garson, Garbo, Powell, Astaire and Turner, clustered them and others in such big-money films as Ben Hur, The Good Earth, Grand Hotel and Dinner at Eight. If need be, Mayer could...