Word: max
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with plenty of wild chasing." Odds are that he would scarcely be amused by a film now in the script stage and headed for the cameras next year, when an independent group led by Director John Huston (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre) and Producer Wolfgang Reinhardt (son of Max) go to Vienna to make a movie about Sigmund Freud...
Thus last week ended one of the least glorious competitions in newspaper history. When three brothers, Max, John and Louis Levand, took over the Beacon in 1928, they introduced a style of journalistic alley fighting that the rival Eagle had never seen before. Goaded to fury, Eagle Publisher Marcellus M. Murdock replied in kind. The contest quickly degenerated into a nasty feud waged in the pages of the Beacon and Eagle with such bitterness that there rarely seemed room for legitimate news. The Eagle squandered news columns on insinuations that the Levands were chiselers; the Levands, who are Jewish, periodically...
...speed conventional construction projects, there are new guns galore: Flint-kote's "Sealzit" spray guns spray roofing on flat or free-form surfaces, may well make the shingle obsolete. Atlanta's Lenox Square shopping center was constructed with the True Gun. developed by Tulsa's Max True, which sprays concrete. A wire-tying gun enables workmen simply to aim at the joint where steel reinforcing rods need to be lashed, pull the trigger, and the job is done. For do-it-yourself fans, Chicago's Wonder Building Corp. has brought out fallout-bomb-shelter kits: backyard...
...Hary's fierce pride. Son of a Saarland coal miner who was a German wrestling champion. Hary began serious training at the age of 14. By 1958 Hary was the European champion, but he had won few personal admirers along the way. Says West German Track Boss Dr. Max Danz: "He was a little urchin, a tough kid and a little loudmouth." Hary cockily dispensed with a coach: "I've been raised to stand on my own two feet and can take my fate into my own hands." In time, Hary's starting reflexes came to have...
Angles & Bells. Hollywood, for its part, isn't going for the angle. Groucho Marx, not even bothering to make his bark witty, summed up one school of local opinion by calling Susskind "this phony New York intellectual." In a Daily Variety column. Humorist Max Shulman wrote of "Mr. Susskind, the noted television trailblazer. who gave us a video adaptation of The Bells of St. Mary's." Susskind sniffed: "People mention these things to me. but I absolutely refuse to read the local papers and the trade papers. I only read the New York papers...