Word: rank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dark & Charmed. Based on a novella by Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas' movie was commissioned in the late '40s by a subsidiary of the J. Arthur Rank organization. But Rank dissolved the subsidiary before the film could be produced, and the script vanished into the Rank bank. Richard Burton owns it now, in partnership with a New York producer, and sooner or later Burton intends to commit the story to film, with himself starring as an island trader named Wiltshire...
...roles. Time was, and not so long ago, that wave after wave of bony-faced, floppy-haired Australians would flash into Forest Hills, flay the U.S. amateurs, and fly off with all the prizes. The top Aussies might then turn professional, but Australia was so deep in first-rank tennis players that it hardly made a difference; next year's wave would be just as devastating. Last week Australia had to be content with a one-man wave and a wavelet-second-seeded Roy Emerson and fifth-seeded Ken Fletcher. Emerson won at Forest Hills back...
...Japanese admiral carrying plans for defense strategy, thus hastening the liberation of the islands; of a heart attack; in Manila. With the plans safely in Australia, Cushing disregarded orders by releasing the admiral to put a stop to a massacre of Cebu islanders by Japanese troops, and lost his rank, later restored...
...bottom as he carried her up a stage staircase. In Paris during the last days of World War II, she met Mike Todd decked out in what appeared to be a porter's uniform decorated with countless rows of ribbons, medals, and stars and bars of every rank. "Any sonofabitch Nazi catches me," said Todd, "he'll give me the VIP treatment." During the filming of Giant, the picture's co-producer appeared on the set one day, ashen-faced after a terrifying drive through the studio back lot with James Dean. "Shoot those extra Jimmy Dean...
...commercial business-and they are not finished yet. Last week executives from three big prewar Mitsubishi heavy industry groups were at work on what promises to be the biggest postwar reunion of them all: the merger of the three into the old Mitsubishi Heavy Industry Co., which would rank as Japan's second biggest firm and trail only another zaibatsu firm, Hitachi...