Word: nones
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...financial dipsy-doodling, none is more involved than a deal set up by a pair of film writers named Martin L. Rackin and John Lee Mahin. Ten months ago the team found a loose option on Harold Sinclair's Civil War novel, The Horse Soldiers, snapped it up for a token $1 (eventually they paid $30,000 for the book). Looking around for a director, Entrepreneur Rackin went to the best. "For the hell of it, I called John Ford." Before long, Director Ford, a Civil War buff, agreed to do the picture for a $200,000 flat...
...they have problems. "Please, Paul," cries Demus when he is not getting enough pedal, "I'm starving." Occasionally, they get their signals crossed: once, each waited "for a terrible moment" for the other to make a solo entrance, finally came in together. But such lapses are rare, and none but the sharpest critical ears have managed to detect them. The reason, Badura-Skoda points out, is that most of the music they play is from a literature totally unfamiliar to modern audiences. "What we are doing," he says proudly, "is a very old-fashioned thing...
M.I.T., in three matches to date, has defeated the University of Massachusetts and Tufts, and bowed to Wesleyan. None of these schools is noted for their wrestling teams, and the Engineers, with a sophomore-studded squad, figure to offer little competition for the Crimson...
Eisenhower: "Ike? Oh, a very good fellow. Extremely good diplomat. Man to get 'em all working together. A man of courage. Not a great soldier ... I begged him not to [go into politics]. I said, since George Washington none of your soldiers have made very good politicians. I said the most successful was Harrison; he died within three months...
...Nuclear Science and Engineering, with only a few million dollars worth of business in supplying the major atomics firms, to such giants as Westinghouse and Du Pont, whose contracts run into hundreds of millions (see box). Several of them are ahead of G.E. in certain fields, but none have met the challenge of the atom on a broader front...