Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Career: Glennan started out as an electrical engineer, veered into moviemaking by way of the electrical aspects of sound pictures. He became operations manager of Paramount Pictures Inc. in Hollywood, studio manager in 1939. In 1942 he returned east to be director of the Navy's Underwater Sound Laboratory at New London, Conn. In 1947 he was chosen president of Case Institute of Technology in Cleveland...
Crooner Tony Bennett, 25, is the latest idol of the bobby-sox set; in Manhattan's Paramount Theater last week, Tony's tune-punching had the girls squealing and curling their toes in their saddle shoes. Bennett accepted the acclaim (and $4,000 a week), though he protested the while that he would really rather be doing something else...
...insects, flowers, vegetables and bike races have kept right on winning prizes in juvenile art shows at home and abroad. Severino's classmates at the village grammar school in Sant' Arcangelo soon caught the fever, formed a hard-painting little group known as "the School of Severino." Paramount Films did a movie short about the youthful artists. In last year's ECA International Child Art Competition (TIME, Sept. 24, 1951), several of the top prizes in Italy went to adherents of the School of Severino...
...Greatest Show on Earth (Paramount) is a mammoth merger of two masters of malarkey for the masses: P. T. Barnum and Cecil B. de Mille. It is not just a movie about the circus; it is a fat Technicolored reproduction of the 1951 Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey Circus itself, fondly filmed from all angles by Producer-Director de Mille, and generously overlaid with a three-ringed melodrama enacted by movie stars in the roles of sawdust demigods...
...with the Army (Paramount...