Word: rhett
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...overall conception to the small details of costume and set decoration, Gone With the Wind has an innate grace, an elegance and dignity that has disappeared from movie-making. Even the rapid succession of disasters in the final 20 minutes--Scarlett's miscarriage, her daughter's fatal accident, Rhett's madness and Melanie's death--gains complete plausibility from the nuances of performnace and the stylistic subtlety of direction...
Once again, filmgoers have the chance to rereview two such fabled Hollywood performances: Clark Gable as Rhett Butler and Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara in David O. Selznick's Gone With the Wind. Since its gala 1939 premiere in Atlanta, G.W.T.W. has been seen by more than 295 million people and earned $75 million in rentals for MGM. This month MGM re-released it for the fifth time, and already has advance bookings (at an average of $3 per reserved-seat ticket) totaling...
Editor of the TIME Reading Program is Max Gissen, who for 16 years was a writer in TIME'S Books section. Rhett Austell was general manager of TIME when he was named publisher of TIME-LIFE BOOKS...
Elected to the board of the new company from Time Inc. were Rhett Austell, publisher of TIME-LIFE Books, Edgar R. Baker, vice president in charge of research and development, John F. Harvey, vice president and comptroller. New board members from G.E.: Vice Presidents Hershner Cross, Dr. George L. Haller, Dr. Louis T. Rader and General Manager (consumer electronics) Robert C. Wilson. Norman P. Ross, who has been editor of TIME-LIFE Books, was elected a vice president and director of educational research and development. The new board elected Craig T. Senft as a vice president. He will also continue...
...Resign." Georgia's Bishop Albert Rhett Stuart tolerated St. John's segregated worship until the revision of Canon 16, which by last January led the other six white Episcopal churches in Savannah to open their doors to Negroes. Hoping to forestall a struggle, Bishop Stuart in March summoned Risley to his office, urged him to yield, suggested that he could lay the blame on Stuart. "I'll resign as a minister before I'll allow Negroes in St. John's," answered Risley...