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...Xhosa tribesmen of Transkei, seeking a Prime Minister for South Africa's first "self-governing" Bantustan (TIME, Nov. 29), last week gave an overwhelming majority of their votes to Paramount Chief Victor Poto. But as it turned out, Poto did not get the job. Instead the office went to Chief Kaizer Matanzima, the candidate preferred by the South African government. Poto wants white men and white investment capital in the Transkei, while Matanzima, a black racist, supports the idea of an all-black state...
Anything for a pal, and so George ("Bullets") Durgom hopped on a golf cart to spin around the Paramount lot with Jackie Gleason, 47, last June. Awaaaay they went, recalled Gleason's former manager, in a suit he just filed. The only problem was that Gleason was "intoxicated from excessive use of alcoholic beverages," was thus "an incompetent and unfit driver of golf carts." At last, after careening all over, the cart overturned. Bullets (150 Ibs.) fell on the ground; the Great One (290 Ibs.) and the golf cart (500 Ibs.) fell on Bullets. This resulted in "severe...
Nobody fooled himself that Hayden could act. Week after week he sat idly around the lot drawing $600 a month from Paramount Pictures and lifting weights in the studio gymnasium. Finaly he was given the second male lead, Behind Fred MacMurray and opposite Madeleine Carroll (whom he later married) in Virginia, and the big publicity boom...
...restless, and although paramount promised him an $18,000 schooner to keep him happy, he wiggled out of his contract to go off to war. When he returned, he was starred in a dreary succession of B pictures, but the pay in those last palmy days was considerably higher-upwards of $160,000 a year...
...publication of Mosaic. The lectures and services get the greatest numerical response, and this is consistent with Hillel's central goal to provide Jewish students with religious services and instruction. Civil rights work is a secondary aim of Hillel, although Rabbi Gold stresses that "this must be considered a paramount concern until the situation is better and there are enough organizations working in the area...