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Word: lichtman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though Fox was still dickering with the Government, it was getting ready for the split-up itself. Fox's Al Lichtman, a hard-knuckled distribution expert, had drafted a plan to get Fox a bigger slice of the box-office receipts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prelude to Divorce? | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...Bargain? When Fox loses its own theaters, a bigger take will be important. In rural areas, movies are now sold for flat rentals. Under the new system there will be sliding rates, with exhibitors getting a bonus when box-office receipts are big. Lichtman thinks this will encourage longer runs for good pictures, hence benefit producer as well as exhibitor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prelude to Divorce? | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...Groaner's Friend. In Westville Grove, N.J., Louis Lichtman, who plays music to his 4,000 hogs to help fatten them, announced authoritatively that Bing Crosby and Guy Lombardo have greatest hog appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 14, 1948 | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

...Thee (lyrics by Alfred Hayes, music by Alex North, Al Moss, others; produced by Nat Lichtman) is a straining little revue in which there is so much stale beer, amateurishly brewed, that when a fair grade of theatrical champagne arrives it seems like Veuve Cliquot. Really sparkling is the ballroom dancing of Cappello & Beatrice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 4, 1940 | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

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