Word: movieman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Curtain Lifter. Movieman Eric Johnston got Hollywood's foot under the Iron Curtain. He made a deal with Russia, where almost no U.S. films are shown, to let in up to 20 films a year, pay for them with dollars in New York. Johnston hoped to close a similar deal with Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito...
...Airman-Movieman Howard Hughes, who claims that the United Aircraft Corp. was responsible for his near-fatal plane crash two years ago (their propellers were faulty, he charges), set a value of $250,000 on the damages to himself, $238,000 on damages to his Hughes Tool...
...Production Boss Dore Schary, 20th Century-Fox Boss Spyros Skouras, who is an old friend, John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Railroader & Picturemaker Robert R. Young, who will show Rank around the U.S. in his private car. They all listened to Mr. Rank with respect. As one shrewd U.S. movieman said: "Rank is one of the seven or eight key men they are counting on over there to pull them...
...Movieman L. B. Mayer's favored Stepfather finished first in a mad scramble down the stretch in Santa Anita's $50,000 San Vicente Handicap. Then three rival jockeys complained that Stepfather had fouled them in a bumping bee, and for 16 minutes the judges debated. Their decision: disqualify Stepfather, make second place Hubble Bubble the winner...
...Reno, Emeryville and Butte, Willie blew most of his apprentice salary finding out that nobody could tell who was going to win. Says he: "I couldn't even pick the winners I was riding myself." His toughest job is trying to hold down his five owners (including Movieman Louis B. Mayer, whose second-stringers are Molter-trained). Like most owners, the five tend to overestimate their horses. If a horse wins, the owner wants to enter him in a higher class. Willie prefers to enter horses in races they...