Word: movieman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...laying plans to follow it up with Mary Magdalene next year. And the California organizations of Protestants, Roman Catholics and Jews are beginning to get accustomed to waves of script-waving, sincere-talking cinemakers who beg them to scrutinize their movies for "anything offensive to your faith." As one movieman thoughtfully explained last week: "We are not theologians...
...that they had invented the thing first. A Chicago beanery produced the 3-D Special, and a Midwestern minister gave a sermon on "Prayer-the Third Dimension." Exuberant Cinemogul George Skouras kissed Pageanteer Mike Todd in public. Somebody else brought out a Polaroid lorgnette. "Whaddya mean, vulgar?" cried one movieman. "Isn't the public entitled to be hit in the face...
...gamble that Lloyd's of London took when it paid Movieman William Goetz a $250,000 insurance claim and took possession of his crippled sprinter, Your Host (TIME, April 9), looked as though it was going to pay off. Last week the four-year-old stallion was feeling chipper enough to get a new pair of shoes for the first time since he fractured four bones in his right elbow in a racing spill early this year. If he continues to improve at the same rate, Your Host, winner of ten stakes and $384,795, will stand at stud...
...white-stockinged California sprinter, the favorite at post time, ran out of gas after leading for a mile, and finished ninth. But after that, he seldom ran out of the money. Your Host came back to beat such horses as Hill Prince and Ponder, had earned $384,795 for Movieman-Owner William Goetz when he broke an elbow bone in a spill at Santa Anita early this year...
...stubbornly simple logic was based on the facts that 1) only one California horse, Morvich in 1922, had ever won the Kentucky Derby, and 2) Your Host had never run against the best of the three-year-old crop. Last week at Kentucky's Keeneland Track, Movieman-Owner William Goetz and his Louis B. Mayer-bred colt put on an impressive show...