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...sold a luncheon of 100 fat-cat Southern Californians-Movie Mogul Sam Goldwyn, Movie Monarch Clark Gable, et al.-on stepping up campaign contributions, thus won more TV time. From California to Chicago he warmly endorsed and posed with G.O.P. candidates, signed autographs, turned on pep talks to groups of G.O.P. precinct workers...
...Alexander Korda, the British movie mogul, signed her to a seven-year, nonexclusive contract. The late great Albert Basserman dragged her off on a tour of Europe to play Gretchen to his Faust. By 1950 she was in a flood tide of some of the weepiest (and most popular) German pictures ever made. This was her Seelchenperiode as a leidender Engel (suffering angel), the shopgirl's ideal, when the Schell smile was as famous in Germany as the Monroe walkaway was in the U.S. Maria and Dieter Borsche, with whom she was starred in Es Kommt Ein Tag, were...
...Look (1947) and the Flat Look (1954), supporter pf the Sack Look (1957); of a heart attack while playing cards on vacation in Montecatini, Italy. At 30 he launched his career as assistant to such shapemakers as Robert Piguet and Lucien Lelong. After the war French Textile Mogul Marcel Boussac backed Dior, and a year later the designer had made fashion history, to remain fashion's tireless (13 hours a day) kingpin ever since, the much-publicized cause of the rise and fall of bosoms, the shrink and stretch of hips, the sight and flight of knees. Often creating...
...stockholders for help, embattled President Vogel warned that the dissidents planned to put Contractor Tomlinson in as Loew's chairman, with TV Man Meyer as president. He also charged, as a final shot, that the man behind it all was none other than longtime M-G-M Mogul Louis B. Mayer, the aging (72) lion trainer who retired six years ago, but whose cream-colored, leather-paneled office is still kept vacant. Along with his two allies, said President Vogel, Old L.B. is "actively attempting to seize control...
...million capital reserve long hoarded by penny-pinching former Chairman Sewell Avery. To put Ward on Chicago's State Street, the city's retail center, Barr announced purchase of the Fair, an 82-year-old department store with three thriving suburban branches, controlled by Five & Ten Mogul Sebastian S. Kresge's charitable Kresge Foundation. For $7,532,500, Ward bought 301,300 shares of the Fair stock from the foundation at $25 a share, will try to buy the remaining 70,800 shares from 1,500 private owners at the same price for a total investment...