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...minutes before the grand opening, there was standing room only. What was it? A preview of John Wayne playing Hamlet? Or of Liz Taylor in The Life of Liz Taylor? No indeed. It was the start of the House Ways and Means Committee hearings on President Kennedy's tax program...
...lights went down at the 20th Century-Fox stockholders' meeting last week as Spyros Skouras-beneficent impresario of a troubled corporation-happily announced a preview showing of scenes from new Fox films. The ploy failed. Twenty minutes of movies helped no one to forget that Fox lost $22.5 million on last year's operations, and next year's hopes rest entirely with the $30 million production of Cleopatra. The fact that Liz Taylor's take from Cleopatra will exceed $1,300,000 brought a bitter joke; a furious stockholder nominated her for the board of directors...
Worried WHDH officials saw the film at a closed-circuit preview and decided that it was "needlessly offensive" for Massachusetts audiences, even though the National Association of Broadcasters had said that "The Benefactors" did not violate its code...
Although on record against special previews of upcoming shows, CBS provided a special closed-circuit preview of the program last week to its affiliated stations and received the stamp of approval from Robert D. Swezey, director of the National Association of Broadcasters Code Authority. He said the show did not violate the NAB's code...
Arise Dissent Sir: I have as good a sense of humor as the next man, but when you quote me directly as saying that I was not interested in how many Senators came to the preview of Advise and Consent [March 30!, I must respectfully request a correction. I arranged the private showing in Washington and was particularly honored by the great number of Senators and their wives present...