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...meeting raises difficulties along with hopes, because both De Gaulle and Adenauer have long withheld their wholehearted support of two paramount projects: British admission to the Common Market and Western Europe's close political unification. On these issues another old man-hardly less grand than the two chiefs of state, although he is only a private citizen-last week took an important stand. As so often before when Europe grappled with its future, there came from Jean Monnet, 73, godfather of the Common Market, some sharp, ringing directions. Gist of the message from "Mr. Europe": expand and unite...
Paul Harkins admits that he was the "maverick of the family." His grades were so bad that he dropped out of school at 14 to work as a delivery boy for Paramount, trotting around from theater to theater with movie reels. Several years ago at a New York dinner, Harkins met Film Maker Adolph Zukor, who said, "General, you're a handsome man. We could have used you in the movies." Replied Harkins, "Hell, I worked for Paramount years ago, but no one made me an offer...
...Counterfeit Traitor (Paramount). Oil, the Swedes remarked sadly in the fall of 1942, is thicker than blood. They were speaking of Eric Erickson, an American who came to Sweden in the '20s, did well in the oil business, took out Swedish citizenship. Then came the war. Erickson, like most neutrals, continued to do business with the Germans, but when he was put on the Allied blacklist his reaction was odious. He publicly insulted the country of his birth, openly frequented the German legation in Stockholm, made fulsome speeches praising the Führer...
...Because it simultaneously acts as agent for most of Hollywood's top talent, is the nation's largest producer and distributor of TV films, and holds TV rights to Paramount's pre-1948 film library, MCA Inc. is uneasily known in the film capital as "The Octopus." Though MCA's elusive President Lew Wasserman, 49, has refused to admit it, show-biz savants have long suspected that the octopus would like to stretch its tentacles into movie production. Last week directors of New York's Decca Records, Inc. approved Wasserman's offer...
...been the leading candidate for both. Treyz is the man who became head of ABC's television operation in 1956 at a time when ABC was running a poor third to NBC and CBS. Treyz saw eye to eye with Goldenson, president of the parent company, American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres, Inc., who viewed television as a sort of mammoth neighborhood movie house with seats for 165 million. Goldenson and Treyz set about to win a following among U.S. televiewers by feeding them very much the same sort of fare they used to see down at the Bijou...