Word: ranked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thought was hardly comforting to the British film industry. In London, an associate of J. Arthur Rank, Britain's foremost producer and largest exhibitor, admitted it was the first time he "had seen the boss really worried." A shortage of U.S. films could starve Rank's movie houses (the Odeon chain) and force them either to close down or run "classics" before dwindling audiences. (Of the 300 new pictures which British movie houses require each year, only about 80 could be produced at home...
...also impressed, and pleased, some rank-&-filers. One of them was Chief Red Cloud of the Sioux Indians. At Cheyenne, the Chief had made Dewey a member of the tribe, presenting him, in a speech in Sioux, with a red-dyed, turkey-feather headdress. Princess Blue Water had translated: "We're a-namin' him Brave Heart. We're for him for President and with what he's a-doin' he's got to be brave...
...quick sniffs at the war contracts let to Howard Hughes, the West Coast plane builder, movie producer and bachelor millionaire. Last February, the SWIC, now headed by Maine's loud and mistrustful Owen Brewster, sniffed at Hughes again. The committee was still sniffing cautiously last week when a rank outsider, slight, swarthy Society Columnist Igor Cassini (Cholly Knickerbocker), suddenly lit on an angle that took the sniffing out of congressional back rooms and into the headlines. The Hughes probe was loaded with girls...
...This represents a considerable improvement in scholaste record over prewar years," Bender asserted. He explaned that rank list percentages show that while groups 1 (all A's) and 2 (2 B's, 24 A's) have not increased greatly, many more students are making groups 3 (all B's) and 4 (2 B's, 2 C's) than before...
Said Psychologist Terman: "We see no signs of a prospective statesman in the group; thus far, the highest elective office held by any...is that of Assemblyman. It contains...no mathematician of truly first rank, no university president. It gives no promise of contributing any Aristotles, Newtons, Tolstoys...." Psychologist Terman thinks the 1,400 entitled to another 25 years before making final judgment on them. But he has already come to one conclusion:"In achieving eminence, much depends on chance...