Word: lichtman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...person whose blood does not clot in three to six minutes is regarded by doctors as a poor surgical or obstetrical risk. No satisfactory chemical is known which will shorten the coagulation time of bleeders, but in last week's Science Dr. Aaron Lee Lichtman and Physiologist William Harold Chambers of Cornell University Medical College announced the discovery of a new compound which greatly reduces the clotting period in animals...
...group of cinema prima donnas market their own pictures. Last United Artists' president able to keep the peace inside that concern was another prima donna, Joseph Schenck. Last year he quit to take his own Twentieth Century Pictures and Producer Darryl Zanuck to Fox. Sales Manager Al Lichtman was moved up to president, speedily quarreled with Producer Sam Goldwyn over the marketing of Barbary Coast, resigned. Prima Donna Mary Pickford took over as provisional president. Last week United Artists owners-Miss Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Goldwyn, Charles Chaplin and British Producer Alexander Korda's delegate, Murray Silverstone-sat down...
...York, Al Lichtman, onetime president of United Artists, joined Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as special sales adviser. President of United Artists last week was still Mary Pickford, who moved in when Al Lichtman moved...
...Lichtman. The ups-and-downs of United Artists this year started in June when Darryl Zanuck's Twentieth Century Pictures left the lot to merge with Fox, taking United Artists' President Joe Schenck with it. To replace Schenck, United Artists partners-Pickford, Fairbanks, Chaplin, Sam Goldwyn-chose Al Lichtman, for eight years the sales manager who was generally considered responsible for United Artists' brilliantly run distribution. With Lichtman as president. United Artists speedily refilled its producing plant with the Selznick company, a new Mary Pickford-Jesse Lasky partnership and Alexander Korda's London Films, whose pictures...
Last week President Lichtman resigned because of ''a difference in views with one of the producers." The producer, every-one knew, was Sam Goldwyn and the difference in views concerned distribution of Barbary Coast (see p. 45). with which Producer Goldwyn was dissatisfied. On the day of the announcement of Selznick International Pictures, United Artists' directors unanimously accepted Lichtman's resignation, unanimously denied that any of United Artists' producers would follow that supersalesman...