Word: rko
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much the same way he gained-and lost-Hollywood's RKO. Buying it in 1948, he soon became the only individual to own a major U.S. film studio. He would summon associates to midnight meetings in obscure hotels and sometimes hole up for weeks in a studio screening room, subsisting on cookies and milk while watching nonstop reruns of old flicks. The studio had few postwar hits; its executives revolted; and in disgust Hughes sold RKO in 1954 for a small profit to the General Tire and Rubber...
...companies succeeded only when he left them alone. There is much to be said for that argument. Since he had little interest in drilling technology, he left Toolco alone; because it had an excellent product, it produced a gusher of profits. By contrast, Hughes meddled so much in RKO and TWA that he ultimately failed there...
...display their talents, she spent $5 million to transform an abandoned movie palace into the first U.S. theater designed specifically for dance. What was once the grubby RKO Colonial is now an intimate, lavishly appointed house with a decor of powder blue (Mrs. Harkness's favorite color), black marble floors, lots of mirrors, chandeliers and easily filchable gold-plated faucets in the rest rooms. The disconcertingly dominant feature of the theater, alas, is a campy, Daliesque mural by Spanish Painter Enrique Senis-Oliver called Homage to Terpsichore, which all but swallows the proscenium. Immortalized in an agonized, thrusting morass...
...idea might charitably be called the brainchild of Los Angeles-based Program Director Bill Drake, who runs the action for RKO's 14 powerful pop-music stations. The concept is founded on the premise that the average radio audience changes every 30 minutes. Thus the notion is to keep repeating?over and over and over again?the same monster items that everyone wants to hear. In fact, Top 40 is an illusory designation; 25 is more like it. "Getting a record into air play," says Kal Rudman, publisher of an East Coast record tip sheet, "is tougher than getting...
...been at it again. Since he proved ineffective in dealing with football futures earlier this year (his diagrammed play did not keep the Miami Dolphins from losing 24-3 to the Dallas Cowboys in the Super Bowl), he turned this time to baseball past. At the behest of an RKO General radio reporter, and later in a bylined article for the Associated Press, President Nixon elaborately documented his choices for an alltime, All-Star baseball team...