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Goldenson is keeping mum about future plans,but his deal has some obvious possibilities. He is already installing big-screen TV facilities in 27 Paramount theaters, could tie them in with ABC programs. With his potent bargaining force as the country's biggest exhibitor, he might also break the movie-producing industry's blockade against new films for TV. A likely solution: use TV for "second-run" showings of new pictures after first-run showings at Paramount theaters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: Paramount Makes a Deal | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

...make-up on their faces and held their elbows at right angles, managed to look quite Egyptian; their story involved a princess who had to choose between three suitors. One offered riches, another royal ancestry, and the last love--according to the twenty-five-cent libretto, which kept mum on her final choice. As a matter of fact, the outcome is still in doubt. The suitors could be distinguished only by their green, red, and blue cummerbunds, of which the princess chose the red; at this point, there was much cheering. I asked one of the applauds, an elderly alumna...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Cabbages and Kings | 5/16/1951 | See Source »

...industry rumor was that RCA had developed a new-type color camera, or maybe it was a new tube. RCA executives kept mum, would only explain vaguely that, because of the pending court decision, "we just don't want to be active publicly at this time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: Color Riddle | 5/14/1951 | See Source »

While Oosterbaan was building up the opposition and tearing down his own team, California Coach Lynn ("Pappy") Waldorf was keeping mum and concentrating on football fundamentals. Waldorf put his pre-game program in two words, "Hard work." His veteran squad, unbeaten for the season, had a special incentive for hard work: the rankling memory of four consecutive Rose Bowl lickings for the West Coast at the hands of the Big Ten, including California's own 17-14 defeat by Ohio State on New Year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Roses & Thorns | 1/8/1951 | See Source »

...Brown Athletic Council met tonight to consider a renewal of Zitrides' contract and emerged from its meeting completely mum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Zitrides Is Probably Relieved But Brown AC Keeps Mum | 12/12/1950 | See Source »

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