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Goldfish & Warriors. Other men often made better movies, but no one else ever catered with such monumental efficiency to the fickle, well-fed goddess that Hollywood describes as public taste. For years, DeMille was Hollywood: he founded one of its first studios in a barn. When he went west from New York in 1913, head of a syndicate that included a struggling vaudeville producer named Jesse Lasky and a glove salesman named Sam Goldfish (later Goldwyn), it was enough that he had the drive and energy to put together The Squaw Man, Hollywood's first full-length flicker, with...
...appearance will climax the week's headlines and thus stimulate new ones. For the guest stars there is a chance to reach TV mass audiences that no newspaper's circulation can match. For this opportunity, guests are willing to hold back choice news items -a practice that often arouses editors' ire but also stirs their interest, since Sunday is a dull news day, and Monday's papers are often starved for good stories. Says United Press International Washington Manager Lyle Wilson: "The public-relations business has always considered Monday morning the softest touch...
...rare newspaper editor who turns down a news story because it came from television. While TV's day-to-day coverage of news is fleeting and its documentaries often ponderous, its Sunday interviews have found an important niche...
...history of the U.S. economy supports this view. Through times of tremendous growth and prosperity the U.S. economy has always had "normal'' inflation -and the alternative has too often been depression. The best long-range measure of inflation is the wholesale price index, which has been recorded conscientiously by the Government since 1890 and projected back as far as 1749. The index shows that prices have generally risen in times of prosperity or of war, fallen in times of depression. During the severe depression of the early 1890s U.S. prices hit their lowest level in history...
...rumpled Englishman who has been called "the greatest bad poet now living." It would be in character if he agreed with that estimate, although he can be called "bad" only in the sense that his rhymes sometimes jingle like a song writer's and that his subjects are often deliberately homely. Literary bookmakers predict that Betjeman (rhymes with fetch-a-man) will be England's next poet laureate. By last week, his Collected Poems had caused a rush on British bookstores probably unmatched by any newly published work of poetry since Byron's Childe Harold burst forth...