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John Houseman, 59, producer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, is paid more than $100,000 a year, but he moonlights. Often working at his other job until dawn, he drives home to his beach house in the Malibu colony, bathes, shaves, and returns to M-G-M by 9 a.m. For that sort of self-punishment he gets perhaps another $1,000 per year, but with it comes the satisfaction of shaping one of the most creative organizations in the American theater...
...divorce action against Billy Rose, represented Bobo Rockefeller when she divorced Winthrop Rockefeller, proved that Charlie Chaplin had plagiarized the idea for The Great Dictator from Author Konrad Bercovici, masterminded Loew's, Incorporated's battle to prevent its takeover by deposed M-G-M Boss Louis B. Mayer...
What Is U.S. Education? The fullest description in years is Martin Mayer's The Schools (Harper; $4.95), a perceptive reporter's first-hand account of everything from team teaching to teacher training, plus live children in live classrooms. The year's most important single issue is summed up in James B. Conant's Slums and Suburbs (McGraw-Hill; $3.95), a sobering report on the growing gap between have and have-not schools, with special emphasis on the "social dynamite" building up in big-city Negro ghettos. Sociologist Patricia C. Sexton's Education and Income (Viking...
When the film capital shifted from New York to Hollywood, Hearst arranged for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to pay Marion $10,000 a week in return for her talented services-and Hearst publicity for M-G-M films. For Marion, Hearst constructed on the M-G-M lot a 14-room, $75,000 mansion, calling it the "Bungalow." Goodhearted, free-spending Marion dispensed Hearst's money with a generous hand, soon became the most popular actress at the studio, paying doctor bills for office boys, distributing expensive gifts to grips and electricians, even paying a studio newsboy's tuition...
...reads the directory of stars in a dressing-room building on the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot in Hollywood. Visitors ask the obvious questions: "Geyger who? Does he really count?" The answer, curiously enough, is yes. "Geyger Krocp" is Actor Warren Beatty's wry, demonstrative method of calling attention to his own relative anonymity...