Word: parings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra will broadcast every Sunday afternoon the year around, beginning May 23. The network: the full CBS coast-to-coast hookup of more than 130 stations. The sponsor: U.S. Rubber. The contract will give the orchestra a chance to pare, or even write off, its $150,000 annual deficit, usually met by hard-squeezed private purses...
Divorced. Pare Lorentz, 37, famed producer of documentary films (The River, The Plow that Broke the Plains); by Sally Bates Lorentz, 30, onetime Broadway actress and mother of his two children; after eleven years of marriage; in Reno...
Cineproducer Pare Lorentz (The River, The Plow That Broke the Plains) sued RKO for $1,619,147 damages for slander and breach of contract. RKO stopped production last July on his Name, Age and Occupation (25-year odyssey of a "composite American...
...dropped by Harvard's conservative art department because of too much enthusiasm for modern art, particularly Disney's. But Disney is by all odds the most successful cinema educator to date. Says FORTUNE: "Previous educational movies, with such rare exceptions as the MARCH OF TIME and Pare Lorentz films, have been dull as dishwater and often embarrassingly coy in the bargain. Disney's are not only enlightening but exciting...
...would lose most of its oil and the Germans would have a potential supply of 170 million more barrels a year,* raising their total supplies to 222 million barrels. While the United Nations, with 1,958 million barrels available annually, would still have a heavy margin, transportation distances severely pare the advantage. Scorching oilfields is also a difficult, time-consuming task. The chances are that Germany could soon get production going from deep-drilled Russian wells...