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Married. Bess Myerson. 37. TV mistress of ceremonies. Miss America of 1945; and Manhattan Lawyer Arnold Grant. 54. razor-sharp counsel for filmdom and onetime RKO board chairman; both for the second time; in Manhattan...
Without Pity. A subsequent trip was an even greater disaster than the first. In 1947 he was invited to serve on an international committee of architects who were to design the U.N. headquarters. Setting up shop on the 21st floor of the RKO building, he threw himself into the job with his accustomed vigor; but Corbu was never a man to work with a team. From the beginning the direction of the project had been given to the more diplomatic Wallace Harrison, designer of Rockefeller Center. When the U.N. Building was finished, Corbu wrote: "A new skyscraper, which everyone calls...
Died. Benjamin Bertram Kahane, 68, president of RKO studios from 1932 to 1936 and since then a vice president of Columbia Pictures, an ex-show-business lawyer who became a leading spokesman for the cinema industry in labor negotiations and its defender against charges of Communist infiltration, served as president the past two years of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; of a heart attack; in Las Vegas...
...Heartened by reports from the Toronto suburb of Etobicoke, where International Telemeter Corp. is trying toll television (TIME, March 14) in competition with three regular channels from Buffalo and two from Toronto, Chicago's Zenith Radio Corp., in association with RKO General, is asking the FCC for permission to make a similar test in Hartford...
...network on the West Coast, bought control of the Mutual Broadcasting System, consolidated the lot into General Teleradio. Stepping nimbly into television, he began syndicating old Hollywood movies to stations across the U.S., was soon shopping for a larger film library. After weeks of haggling, Tom bought the shaky RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. from Howard Hughes for $25 million, started distributing RKO's backlog of some 700 films on television. Says Tom's father: "That Tom, he sure makes money...