Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...five writing greats. In 1937 F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose wife was in a sanitorium, whose agent was unable to sell a single manuscript, and whose earnings for all his books in print during the past year had totalled $81.18, thought that his days were numbered. So when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer offered him a $1250 a week contract to write film scripts he had no choice but to accept. That his frustrating last years in Hollywood, when he tried, desperately, to make enough money in the movies and then leave, did not hurt Fitzgerald's talents, is Dardis's thesis. California...
...proposal is now under consideration by Tufts President Jean Mayer, who originally proposed the vet school, and the Tufts Board of Trustees. However, they will take no formal action on the proposal until February, Harry Zane, a spokesman for the university said yesterday...
...with Spencer Tracy. Their later works were wittier and smoother, but nowhere did the chemistry match the sexiness of this first picture which was made by MGM in 1942. Hepburn found the script by two young writers and tricked the knish-like despot who ran the studio, Louis B. Mayer, into paying a huge sum for the rights by inferring that it was by the unfailingly successful team of writers Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. (They were under contract to another studio and, Hepburn suggested, couldn't sell a script under their own names.) Mayer bit and the screenplay...
...final decision will be made after the veterinary feasibility committee submits a plan to Tufts President Jean Mayer on November...
...Mayer approves the plan, endorsement will be sought from the governors of each New England state and the presidents of all six New England state universities...