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...years ago he began a massive analysis of Broadway past performances, divided plays into four categories depending upon the records of their participants and principals since 1956. In his top class-Group IV-Vail feels that 70% of all entries will make a profit, while he foresees a payoff for only 65% in Group III. 15% in Group II and only 6% in Group I ventures. On his form sheet for 1961: Group IV. The only show still to open this season in TI's gilt-edged category, Carnival, a musical based on the film Lili, boasts a blue...
...Payoff on Gamble. The ad was no joke to its author, James Bryan Choate, 35, a lanky Texan, or to the Brazilian territory of Rondonia (pop. 65,000) where he lives. For Choate, it began the payoff of a $125,000 gamble to tame 500,000 acres of jungle. To Rondonia it signalled the start of local industry, a supply of jobs as well as caninha. The territorial government willingly blessed the venture with a five-year tax grace...
...Suzie Wong cost the insurance companies nearly half a million-when Audrey Hepburn fell from a horse in Mexico early last year, breaking her back and delaying The Unforgiven for six weeks, Fireman's Fund paid $250,000; Kay Kendall's fatal illness necessitated a $106,000 payoff to the producers of Once More, With Feeling...
...underwriters will all show their customary profit this year. Movie insurance turns on a working combination of independent brokers who know show business and glam-ourproof actuaries who know just what table the show must go on. They protect themselves with .such features as the "48hour clause franchise" (no payoff if shooting is held up less than three days) they raise premiums to cover special risks: film versions of Broadway plays are often expensive because groups of stars are generally on-camera at the same time and if one is out the whole production is stopped; similarly, if the plot...
This was the payoff on the bold gamble that committed $3.5 billions of the national defense budget before a single shot was fired. It was the first installment on the Polaris fleet that will run up a bill as large as the entire budget for the Strategic Air Command. But it was a cold war bargain. "It is not nearly so expensive," says Red Raborn proudly, "as a weapon that would not be pre-eminent in war. The second-best weapon is the one that costs too much." Last week there were few to argue that Polaris was second best...