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...Brando blockbuster, so we'll play it their way. Actually, this isn't bad movie. The critics said it was one of the rare films that mix mass appeal with artistic merit, and that is probably true. As you watch it, you should be mildly offended that NBC paid Paramount $10 million to show it one time, and that NBC in turn charged advertisers about $200,000 for one minute of air time. Fuck 'em by turning off the set during the ads. Ch. 4, 9 p.m. Color, 2 hours. (Conclusion Monday...
...Viewed in juxtaposition, these films convey the political tensions of a decade. United Action Means Victory(1940), a production of the United Auto Workers Film Department, which celebrates the 1939 GM tool and die strike, will be shown along with The Memorial Day Massacre (1937), a newsreel suppressed by Paramount executives for being too inflammatory. Willard Van Dyke's Valley Town(1940), a film showing the devastating effects of technological unemployment, will be screened with Walter Niebuhr's Machine: Master or Slave? (1941), which suggests, conversely, that the threat to jobs and well-being is only temporary...
...those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would also do that." Indeed...
...formation of a committee charged with considering admissions suggests that this issue will be of paramount importance when the larger question of merger is reviewed by the Harvard Corporation and the Radcliffe Trustees at the conclusion of the coming academic year...
Died. Stanton Griffis, 87, Wall Street financier and diplomat who built a large fortune in investment banking in the 1920s and 1930s as doctor to sick corporations (Paramount Pictures, among others), then went on to a second career in Government service, including a stint in 1951-52 as the Truman Administration's Ambassador to Spain, where he fought successfully for a reversal of Washington's longstanding policy of isolating the Franco regime; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...