Word: merger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Greatest Show on Earth (Paramount) is a mammoth merger of two masters of malarkey for the masses: P. T. Barnum and Cecil B. de Mille. It is not just a movie about the circus; it is a fat Technicolored reproduction of the 1951 Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey Circus itself, fondly filmed from all angles by Producer-Director de Mille, and generously overlaid with a three-ringed melodrama enacted by movie stars in the roles of sawdust demigods...
...boldness could be seen in the words of France's Robert Schuman last week: "A complete merger of our armed forces in one uniform, under common discipline, under single command and responsibility -not to individual governments but to all the member governments." A High Authority made up of representatives of the six countries would oversee its 43 divisions, its 560,000 ground combat troops. A Commissioner of Defense with broad powers would boss it, assign military commanders, set a common military budget, allocate military aid. Important undertakings such as U.N. and NATO involve no such surrender of national sovereignty...
Meanwhile the question of who first suggested the merger was the subject of considerable controversy. According to a press release from the H.T.G. issued yesterday, that group heard officially about H.D.C.'s merger proposal only late yesterday afternoon...
...H.D.C. release, issued the same day says, "The H.T.G., not the H.D.C. initiated...attempts to bring together the two organization." According to this H.D.C. statement two Theatre Group affiliates were asked to sound out the Dramatic Club on the possibility of a merger at a cast party following the final performance of the H.T.G.'s "Enemy of the People...
Informed sources in both organizations yesterday declared that the possibility of a completed merger was enhanced by the fact that two recent productions, running simultaneously, did not live up to financial expectation. A plan for a joint production this fall, "Billy Budd," was abandoned over the summer...