Word: metro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Upon his resignation this summer, Bender will become Associate Director of the Committee of the Permanent Charity Fund, Committee officials announced yesterday. The Boston foundation last year distributed over $700,000 to "health, social welfare, educational, and cultural" agencies and institutions in the metro-politan area...
...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer signed a new film star: Light Heavyweight Champion Archie Moore, whose craft in the ring has kept him on top of the fight game for years, whose craft on a raft got him successfully through a screen test for the role of Jim, the runaway slave, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn...
Died. Gilbert Adrian, 56, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's head dressmaker for a dozen years, husband of Hollywood's first Oscar-winning actress, Janet Gaynor (Seventh Heaven); of a stroke; in Hollywood. For more than a decade Adrian set the pace for women's fashions across the U.S. and even to Paris, made Jean Harlow, Katherine Hepburn and Norma Shearer look like haute couture models, put Greta Garbo in sequined slacks. Lynn Fontanne in a white organdy bow that started a national fad, released Joan Crawford from a movie prison in a little basic black dress that...
...only reason for the cutback in movies at all," says Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's boss, Sol C. Siegel, "is that we will not make pictures for the sake of making pictures any more." TV has killed the routine movie for most people (who can watch all the routine movies they want to on TV), forced Hollywood to concentrate on blockbusters-the big-screen, big-star, big-color extravaganzas that often cost upwards of $3,000,000. The blockbusters have no trouble luring people away from TV, are the favorites of the drive-in theaters, which have grown from...
...chaos any longer. A few people refusing to leave a train can delay thousands." Detrainment, as he called the ejection of passengers, could not be avoided.* All this was shocking news to Londoners, long proud of the Underground's superiority to the New York subway and Paris Metro...