Word: michaels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tall, spare, drill-pipe-straight Michael Late (after the doctor who delivered him) Benedum got into the oil business in the days when "anybody could drill for oil that was of a mind to. I don't remember ever meeting a geologist or even hearing the word." Benedum, son of a West Virginia cabinetmaker, teamed up with an oilfield roughneck named Joe Trees, and hit oil in Pleasants County, West Va. in 1895. He was soon making $1,500 to $2,000 a month from the property, and drilling more wells, at one point brought in eleven straight producers...
Born. To Harry (Harold George) Belafonte Jr., 30, Harlem-born calypso crooner, and his second wife, Julie Robinson Belafonte, 29, pigtailed, Russian-Jewish dancer (Katherine Dunham troupe): a son, their first child (his third); in Manhattan. Name: David Michael...
...Girl in Black (Hermes; Kingsley International). Cyprus-born Director Michael Cacoyannis, 35, son of a corporation lawyer, got his theatrical education in London and won a Diploma of Merit from the Edinburgh Film Festival for his first picture, Windfall in Athens (1953). His Stella (1955) was a box-office smash in Europe. A Girl in Black, quite aside from its merits and demerits as art and entertainment, should give U.S. audiences some sharp new impressions of what life is like in modern Greece...
...Chaplin illuminate the screen as he pokes fun at rock 'n' roll, Hollywood movies ("The Killer with a Soul . . . You'll love him . . . Bring the family"), the wide screen, blaring jazz bands, TV commercials. But before long, a little boy (played by Chaplin's son, Michael, 11) buttonholes the king, and in a semihysterical rage rants about witch-hunting, the atom bomb, freedom ("There's no freedom here . . . They don't give you a passport"). The Committee on Un-American Activities has named the boy's parents as Communists. They have left...
...pretrial sparring that kept the Chicago trial from a final showdown for years, RCA in 1954 hired Lawyer Adlai Stevenson to get an injunction against U.S. District Judge Michael Igoe on the charge that he was biased. Stevenson lost in the U.S. Supreme Court. Igoe finally set the trial for last week. By that time Zenith had spent $2,000,000 on legal fees and gathering evidence and RCA $5,000,000. But the case did not come to trial, apparently because Zenith had gathered too much legal ammunition to fire...