Word: orr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...common enemy-Warner Bros. Encouraged by a withering denunciation of the studio by the Screen Actors Guild, the cowpokes drew a bead on 1) highhanded Studio Boss Jack L. Warner, who spends much of his time commuting between Las Vegas and the Riviera; and 2) William T. Orr, Warner's son-in-law and the studio's hard-driving TV chief. The cowboys' beef: the usual Warner Bros, contract, which binds screen hopefuls to the studio for seven years at a predetermined salary, often prevents them from reaping the customary rewards of stardom, e.g., sharing in "residual...
Admitting that there may have been irregularities, TV Boss Bill Orr argued: "Instead of being unhappy, these people should be thankful . . . Look and see what some of these unhappy people were doing before they came to Warner Bros." But the actors were not buying that. Most echoed Maverick's James Garner, who makes a reported $1,750 a week: "I feel like a slab of meat hanging there; every once in a while they cut off a piece...
...than the L.A. police force can match with live bulletsin the line of duty in a year Everyone is getting into the act. At Warners, where TV production accounts for a large part of the company income, Private Eye shows pack so much publicity potential that TV Chief Bill Orr keeps the press away from his crews-writers, directors producers. He handles the interviews and hangs onto the credit...
...observers' stand a quarter of a mile away, photographers got what may be history's best view of the business end of an oncoming missile. Explanation of the failure: an inverter did not feed current into the guidance system, and so the bird flew aimlessly. Dr. Walter Orr Roberts, director of the University of Colorado's high-altitude observatory, lamented that the failure "probably has set our kind of scientific research back ten years," because the misfire cost scientists a priceless opportunity to study an unusually powerful and unexpected solar flare on the day of the scheduled...
...this changed the A.M.A.'s public posture, it did not change the minds of some A.M.A. bigwigs. Los Angeles' Dr. E. Vincent Askey, newly chosen presidentelect (to take office in 1960, succeeding Florida's Dr. Louis M. Orr), insisted after the vote that just as inviolable as the patient's right to choose his physician is his right to reject one. To Dr. Askey, the freedom to choose a closed panel is no freedom...