Word: scenario
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Knight had not won a race since 1944, and Trainer Charlie Leavitt almost scratched him-but Owner Ethel Hill insisted that he run. He ran as he never had before, nosed out the dapple-grey favorite, First Fiddle, in a four-horse photo finish. To the owner, a Hollywood scenario writer, went a gold cup, a $101,220 purse, and a cool handshake from her boss, Louis B. Mayer, whose entry (Be Faithful) finished seventh...
...land hours ahead of an attack (once they were caught for hours in cross fire) ; constantly, he caromed from man to man of his small crew, guiding them to the best positions, the best shots. Day & night at odd moments during the fighting, Huston shaped and reshaped his scenario, and wrote his narration...
Henry King's direction and Lamar Trotti's scenario are above average, but both dangerously approach the common flag-waving touch. It is the essentially accurate re-creation of history with successful balance of insight and showmanship that makes "Wilson" first-rate. It rests on its merits of candor and taste as a stirring epic of the United States...
...baseball experiences of the 25-year-old Florence, S. C. boy are also reminiscent of a scenario. Fresh out of Columbia Law School and Cumberland University, where he was a three letter man, Jordan signed a contract with the Philadelphia A's and was shipped off to Texarkana in the East Texas League, for the season...
...then a single issue had three or four Faust stories under different pseudonyms. In his most productive years Faust averaged two million words a year-at the pulp magazines' top rate of 4? a word. He once wrote Hollywood an Alaska story, but the studio needed a sarong scenario. Faust was back in five days, his story reset in the South Seas...