Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Capitol Hill attitude was best summed up by one of the absent committee members, Montana's Mike Mansfield, who prides himself on being a leading Democratic light on foreign relations. "The Administration," said Mansfield last week, "is pushing foreign aid, and for that matter foreign trade, as paramount issues at the very moment the people are much more interested in unemployment compensation and public works." By way of showing that he stands second to none in taking care of the folks back home, Mike Mansfield put his great weight behind a $45,000 proposal to send the Flathead County...
...born in an Alabama log cabin. The Memphis Blues, written in 1909 to abet the first mayoralty campaign of Memphis' Edward H. ("Boss") Crump, started his career in jazz writing. This month, St. Louis Blues, a fictionalized film biography of Handy's life, will be released by Paramount Pictures...
Died. Don Hartman, 57, independent film producer (Desire Under the Elms), onetime (1951-56) production chief at Paramount Pictures Corp.; of a heart attack; in Palm Springs, Calif...
Teacher's Pet (Perlberg-Seaton; Paramount). Clark Gable is the city editor of a big metropolitan daily, a self-made man whose every word proclaims what can be done with good material by bad workmanship. Doris Day is an instructor of journalism. When she invites Gable to address her class, he replies with a sneer: "In the school I graduated from, there were no lectures without four-letter words in them ... I think you're wasting your time, and I prefer not to waste mine...
Desire Under the Elms (Don Hartman; Paramount). The stage is to the drama of Eugene O'Neill as a glass is to whisky. Take it away, and the stuff is not there. In the theater, where it ran 208 performances in 1924-25, Desire Under the Elms was properly furnished with a dark and womblike set, and the spectator could feel himself shut up in the incestuous nightmare at the core of the puritan mentality. But in this picture the atmosphere is dissipated in the irrelevant vastness of the VistaVision screen, and almost all the emotional pressure is lost...