Word: pined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...timeworn wheeze among U.S. movie producers is that a Pine-Thomas picture run backwards would entertain an audience as much as the same film shown in due order. It is the standard opening for the observation that however the film is run it will be a money maker...
Since they formed a producing team in 1940, lank, solemn, ex-pressagent William Hoy Pine, 49, and sleek, peppery, ex-pressagent William Carroll Thomas, 41, have whipped up 30 musicals and melodramas for the nation's double bills. None has come close to an Oscar, but all have been good business...
...first three were made with their own money. They were so fabulously successful that Paramount promptly bought into the gold mine. It agreed to finance all Pine-Thomas productions, pay them 25% of all profits over 170% of the cost of the film...
...could do, after training on hard surfaces had pounded the spring from his legs. When deflated Gunder got home, he went to Valadalen in northern Sweden, where he had trained in the palmy days of his 4:04.6 and 4:06.2 miles. Over trails quilted with moss and pine needles, he slowly coaxed the fjader (spring) back into his legs...
...already at work on The Death of Virgil when he fled to the U.S. from his native Austria in 1938. That same year Novelist Ezio Taddei, an Italian anarchist, climbed the Alps and escaped to France and the U.S., after 18 years in Fascist prisons. His new novel, The Pine Tree and the Mole, is a study of Italian society some 2,000 years after Virgil's death. In both books the theme is the tortured condition of man when the old gods fall before the dictatorship of Caesar...