Word: partnership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strategy expressed far more accurately the West's hopes of converting the old relationship of empire and colony into a new partnership of mutual respect and mutual profit. For its effect it relied on a simple demonstration of the real value of Western friendship-by the simple process of showing vividly what it costs to be without...
...Polynesian Toy." In partnership with Colleague Fritz Burns, Kaiser first bought a somewhat rundown hotel next to Waikiki beach. Within four months he had ripped down the hotel, put up in its place 24 hotel bungalows, three swimming pools, a nightclub and bar. To be sure that his new toy was authentic, he used Polynesian architecture and decor (tiki gods. Hawaiian and Oriental furnishings, yards of tapa cloth, thousands of sea shells), had a Samoan Mormon colony thatch the bungalow roofs by hand. In the village's color scheme, he put heavy emphasis on coral pink. Said Kaiser: "Pink...
...came shortly after Nenni, in a windy polemic, had expressed horror at Moscow's revelations about Stalin, and implied that Khrushchev was not really much better. At the behest of the Socialist International (which is disturbed by the Nenni Socialists' loyalty to Moscow, the only such partnership in Western Europe), suave, strongly anti-Communist Pierre Commin did his best to persuade his two old friends to merge their parties...
...Independents. Short, round-faced ex-dancer (with Martha Graham), ex-Hollywood Agent Harold Adolph Hecht, 49, who runs the business end of the partnership and shares authority with Lancaster, is convinced that this is the era of independent producers. Small production outfits are multiplying, and such major studio chiefs as Darryl Zanuck and Jerry Wald have recently quit their jobs to form independent companies...
...Paddy Chayefsky's Bachelor Party, which went on location in New York last week, will be the first of 14 new films to be made by the Hecht and Lancaster Companies (it will be Hecht, Hill & Lancaster next year, when onetime Scriptwriter James Hill joins the partnership). Projected films include The Way West, from A. B. Guthrie Jr.'s Pulitzer Prizewinning novel with Lancaster and probably James Stewart, Gary Cooper and Katharine Hepburn; First Love, with Audrey Hepburn, adapted by John van Druten from the Turgenyev novel; George Bernard Shaw's The Devil's Disciple, with...