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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...