Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago, United Paramount Theaters, Inc. signed an agreement to pipe Western Conference football games into three Chicago theaters and one in Detroit. Since no Big Ten games will be telecast to the public this fall, the four theaters will have exclusive rights to the games as they are played. NBC Vice President "Chic" Showerman happily ticked off the advantages: "On large-screen theater TV you can smell the players, they're that close. You can go to a game, you won't have to wear the old raccoon coat, and you don't have to get drunk...
...year appointment on the Senate. He named Dr. T. Keith Glennan, 44, president of Cleveland's Case Institute of Technology, to fill a vacancy on the five-man AEC. A Yale-trained electrical engineer who once worked in Hollywood as studio manager for Paramount and Sam Goldwyn, Glennan was director of the Navy's underwater sound lab at New London, Conn, during World War II. He had no special interest in or knowledge of atomic energy ("My interests have been in administration and in people," says Glennan), but Harry Truman hoped that Glennan would not be "personally obnoxious...
...Furies (Paramount) is a pretentious exercise in Freudian dramatics, set in the New Mexico cow country of 1870. Its main characters, driven by vengeance and greed, wear their passions as openly as their six-shooters. And they switch from hate to love, and from love to hate, as readily as they shift from a canter to a trot...
Sunset Boulevard (Paramount) is a story of Hollywood, mostly at its worst, brilliantly told by Hollywood at its best. A daring film by ordinary movie standards, it is the last collaborative fling by Charles Brackett & Billy Wilder* at a specialty they have made their own: playing hob with convention and getting away with it. It also brings Actress Gloria Swanson back to the screen, after a nine-year absence, in a performance that puts her right up in the running for the first Oscar of her 37-year career...
...confident illusion that her return to the screen is imminent. While she undergoes a strict course of beauty treatments in preparation for her triumph, Holden sneaks away regularly to collaborate on his own script with a good friend's fiancée (Nancy Olson), a reader at Paramount. He and the girl fall in love. But by that time, he has become so enmeshed in the Sunset Boulevard snare that he cannot escape...