Word: lews
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lured away everyone who might make the nimble Australian redhead work up a sweat on the courts. For years. Lefthander Laver, 23, labored as a B-team scrub on the great Down Under squads that dominated amateur tennis, taking his lumps regularly from such talented first-stringers as Lew Hoad, Ken Rosewall and Ashley Cooper. Even after the varsity turned pro, Laver could not seem to win the big ones: he lost twice in the finals at Wimbledon, twice more at Forest Hills. But this year The Rocket is finally off the pad. He swept the Australian and French singles...
Since 1946, MCA's operating head (and president) has been Lew Wasserman, 49, the austere and fanatically secretive protege of Founder Stein. Wasserman always dresses in black, and sees that his underlings do too. He is always accompanied by an aide who memorizes conversations so there will be a record of them in the event of Wasserman's death; in the best cloak-and-dagger style, MCA rarely keeps memos on any transaction...
Thus the Princeton meet may be close, or even worse. The Tigers boast a 15-ft. pole vaulter in Charlie Mitchell, a 6 ft., 8 in. high jumper in John Hartnett, a 49.0 quarter miler in Lew Hitzrot, and a host of fine sprinters and distance...
...most of Hollywood's top talent, is the nation's largest producer and distributor of TV films, and holds TV rights to Paramount's pre-1948 film library, MCA Inc. is uneasily known in the film capital as "The Octopus." Though MCA's elusive President Lew Wasserman, 49, has refused to admit it, show-biz savants have long suspected that the octopus would like to stretch its tentacles into movie production. Last week directors of New York's Decca Records, Inc. approved Wasserman's offer of MCA stock worth an estimated $50 for every...
State Fair (20th Century-Fox) sure is a lucky little old title. In 1932 it was a bestselling novel by Phil Stong, in 1933 a hit movie with Will Rogers, Lew Ayres and Janet Gaynor, in 1945 a second hit movie with Dana Andrews, Jeanne Grain and Dick Haymes. And now State Fair has been turned into a (side bets accepted by Producer Charles Brackett and Director Jose Ferrer) third hit movie-with Pat Boone, Bobby Darin. Tom Ewell, Alice Faye, Pamela Tiffin, Ann-Margret, Wally Cox and an 800-lb. Hampshire hog named George...