Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President made it clear that he considered "that attitude of reverence" the College's most valuable contribution to its students. "This relationship to God--the attitude of reverence--this is the paramount thing," said Pusey...
...last twelve months, as a result, Free-Lance Actor Bogart has played a surprising variety of important roles. He has not completely divorced himself from gangster parts-he is presently considering a hoodlum role in The Desperate Hours, a Midwestern crime story which he tried to buy himself before Paramount outbid him. Nevertheless, he has not had a gat in his hand in a long time. He not only plays a wealthy Wall-Street type (complete with Homburg, furled black umbrella, Brooks Brothers suit and briefcase), but wins the hand of lissome Audrey Hepburn in Paramount's forthcoming Sabrina...
...injury did not affect the section of the brain I use to write with." In Hollywood, Entrepreneur Elliott Roosevelt announced that, after rummaging through some old personal papers and other documents, he and a collaborator had reconstructed an original screenplay missing since 1923, when its author sent it to Paramount studios. It was called I Have Just Begun to Fight, a stirring film biography of Admiral John Paul Jones, a lifelong idol of the scenarist, Franklin D. Roosevelt, who wrote it when Assistant Secretary of the Navy...
Since her first Metro picture (Mogam-bo), Grace has been busier than a flock of starlets at a cocktail party. Warner Bros, borrowed her for Dial M, and Paramount for three more films, which have not yet been released. All are surefire hits, too: Country Girl (with William Holden and Bing Crosby), Rear Window (with James Stewart), Bridges at Toko-Ri (with Holden). She is now working on Green Fire (with Stewart Granger) for MGM; this summer she returns to Paramount for Catch a Thief (with Cary Grant), follows that with The Cobweb...
...addition to Brown, the New York committee consists of Richard C. Aldrich '31, producer; Robert W. Anderson '39, playwright; Robert E. Sherwood '18, playwright; Donald M. Oenslager '23, designer; Curt H. Reisinger '12; Vinton Freedly '14, producer; Leonard H. Goldenson '27, president of Paramount Pictures; Nathaniel Benchley '38; Paul M. Hollister '13; and Donald S. Stralem '24, investment banker...