Word: orr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ingratitude. Gunshy's suet-headed hero was born one night last fall at a party at the home of Bill Orr, a Warner Bros. TV producer. Recalls Maverick Scriptwriter Marion (See Here, Private) Hargrove: "I said it would be fine if the classic opener was carried a step further -the long street, the shot of the marshal entering. The marshal takes a quick draw and fires and fires and misses." By the end of the evening, Hargrove and Orr had worked out a rough plot, chosen their title. Hargrove picked NBC's Gunsmoke as his target, he says...
...worth $30.80. Norman Collins, 51, author and TV executive who originally put up $7,000 of the $50,000 that launched ATV, now finds his shares worth $1,400,000. Sir Robert Renwick, industrialist and broker who invested $4,200, has shares worth $959,500, and Charles Orr Stanley, chairman of Pye radio and TV company, has seen his shares burgeon...
...WILLIAM ORR DINGWELL...
Until a Chair can be founded, there is a wealth of talent possible as guest lecturers in Naturalistic Humanism. If foreign sources are drawn upon, there are in England such men as Dr. Julian Huxley, biologist, formerly Director General of UNESCO, and Lord Boyd Orr, Nobel Peace Prize winner, and first Director General of the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization; and in Canada Dr. G. Brock Chisholm, formerly Director General of the U.N. World Health Organization. In this country, in addition to Dr. Corliss Lamont '24, of the philosophical faculty of Columbia Univ., to whom I referred previously, there...
Next month Orr will announce another new tape, especially designed for long-life storage of valuable documents. The tape will last for up to 100 years, cannot be erased, thus eliminating one of the drawbacks of present tape, which can easily be accidentally erased. Orr sees unlimited uses for tape, not only for computers and automatic machines but for all manner of consumer products. Like other tapemakers, he sees tape recordings superseding phonograph records as soon as the cost can be cut. Before long, he expects, people will take home movies with electronic cameras employing magnetic tapes, run them...