Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Faculty are sympathetic with the need to give the Gen Ed Committee more muscle; its lack of power is one of the obvious weaknesses of the present system. Still, many may be wary of having the Dean of the Faculty head the committee, since he also has paramount responsibility for administering and coordinating the various departments...
Narrow as an arrow but fetching as an etching, Geraldine Chaplin, 20, Charlie's unmatched little girl, paired herself off with British Actor Richard Johnson, 36, for a romp about Chilham Castle in England, where Johnson is playing Kim Novak's leading man in Paramount's production of The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders. "I think he's the most marvelous man," Geraldine rejoiced. "We're very fond of each other-it's obvious, isn't it?" Johnson responded. But, he added, there is "no question of an engagement-at least at this...
THIS business is like opium-once it's in your blood, everything else is dull," muses Paramount Pictures Executive George Weltner. The habit has proved profitable for him: last week, at 62, he was promoted from executive v.p. to president. In something of a youth movement, he replaces Barney Balaban, who at 76 becomes chairman; Paramount's founder, Adolph Zukor, 91, was named chairman emeritus. Aging Paramount lost $2,800,000 in 1962 when several films were boxoffice flops. Last year it was back in the black, and first-quarter '64 earnings ($1,041,000) were almost...
What is original in the modern view-point, Pusey said, is its paramount concern with man as a victim of predicament--"an anguished, mortal creature in an absurd world...
Even though Hunt has greatly increased its investment lately, Canada Dry President Roy W. Moore Jr. still says flatly that he does not want Simon as a director or merger partner. Over at A.B.-Paramount, which this week will announce a 20% rise in first-quarter earnings, President Leonard Goldenson also readied for possible battle with Simon by increasing his own holdings in the company from 56,443 to 70,000 shares. Simon may try to win at least one directorship at next month's annual meeting, says ominously that "we have friends with still more stock...