Word: lew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plans deals to boost their salaries and its commissions. In 1943 Schary had a dispute with MGM, chucked his job as head of "B" pictures. His own agent advised him to go back to M-G-M because he could not get him another job. But M.C.A.'s Lew Wasserman (now president) took over Schary, and in a few hours closed a deal with David O. Selznick which netted Schary $750,000 in three years. Wasserman builds his deals so skillfully, says Schary, that "your tongue is hanging out when he gets through, and you begin to feel grateful...
...Died. Lew Brown (real name: Louis Brownstein), 64, Russian-born songwriter (with Buddy De Sylva and Ray Henderson) of top hits (Button Up Your Overcoat, The Best Things in Life Are Free)', of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...winds in Wellington, New Zealand, last week were every bit as bad as their reputation, and the visiting tennists were every bit as good. Despite blustering westerlies that whipped through the "World's Windiest Capital," Pro Champion Pancho Gonzales and Challenger Lew Hoad put on so relentless an exhibition that down under fans were perfectly satisfied that they had seen the most powerful tennis ever played anywhere...
...Campaigner Gonzales came out ahead, 6-3, 6-3. But the victory gave Pancho only a slim 5-4 lead in the 100-match contest that started in Brisbane and is planned to wander all over the world. So close is the competition that next day in Christchurch, Lew zeroed in on the base line and pounded Pancho's backhand so aggressively that he evened the score in straight sets...
Remembering Lew's sad debut last year, when he first took King Jake Kramer's shilling ($125,000 worth, to be exact) and was whipped by almost every pro he played, a few cynical sports suggested that last week's tight tennis was all an act. But no one with decent eyesight took the sneers seriously; the matches were too tough, too tense to be the least bit phony. In Sydney a fine two-hour contest of four sets sent Pancho to the showers with an aching forearm muscle and a stomach tied in knots. In Adelaide...