Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the Trib's pressagent, Tex McCrary of TV-radio fame, admitted that at its present rate the Trib stood to lose $1,000,000 in the fiscal year ending in July 1959, conceded that Jock Whitney, his wartime friend and peacetime neighbor (Manhasset, L.I.), was considering taking over controlling interest in the Trib as a price for his help...
...such popularity at Yale that the university once gave him the longest contract in its history (ten years) despite his not Merriwell-done record: when he resigned in 1952 in favor of a radio-TV career, his Yale elevens had won 16, tied 2, lost 17. Win or lose, the Tennessee Cannonball was good for a laugh, liked to tell stories on himself. Once, in a game with Princeton, the referee penalized Yale ten yards because Hickman was coaching from the sidelines. "I ran after him; the coach recounted, "and shouted. 'Why, you dumb...
...goods shoddy, Soviet maintenance poor. But so long as the threat of a congressional cutback in U.S. aid and trade programs and increasing pressure for more U.S. tariffs on basic commodities exist, the attractions of the Soviet lure are apt to become even stronger. U.S. business will not only lose some of its present markets, but, far more important, will be kept out of the markets of the future...
...have a successful picture these days," says he, "the success goes beyond anything dreamed of years ago." When Hecht-Hill-Lancaster, now the most successful independent film maker, was just starting out, it asked U.A. to back it in what Benjamin called "a lovely picture we thought we might lose a little money on." It was Marty. It cost $300,000, has so far picked up $5,000,000 plus Academy awards...
...could lose its shirt if it backed a long string of bad pictures. But Krim and Benjamin, whose U.A. holdings are worth $6,500,000, are protected by the fact that, in addition to owning a piece of the pictures, they get 32% of the gross rentals for distributing them. They have a further hedge in their TV operations, have the TV rights to 200 films they have distributed so far, plus 45% of Associated Artists Productions, which owns the Warner Brothers' pre-1950 library...