Word: schaefer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agent $250 for a month's option on the film rights. Next day he started making the rounds of Hollywood's Manhattan story editors. He got nowhere, renewed his option twice, was $750 in the hole and all but broke when RKO's then-President George Schaefer decided to chance it. Golden closed the deal with Ziemer's agent for $5,000-which Ziemer graciously accepted in lOUs. From the Guaranty Trust Co. Golden got a verbal commitment for financing...
...billiard room. Instead of firing him, the manager ordered his proficient boy employe to play with well-paying guests, and he soon became the favorite of billiard-playing Actors Joseph Jefferson, Richard Mansfield, Willian Collier, Kate Emmett. He watched the distinguished and dazzling performances of billiard greats Jake Schaefer Sr. and Frank Ives. While still uniformed after his return from the Spanish-American War, Peterson took a beating from beknickered Willie Hoppe, but got his revenge later in an exhibition match (1906) when he was not so rusty...
Last week R.K.O. had a new alumnus: its president, George Schaefer. ex-general manager of United Artists, ex-sales vice president of Paramount, resigned. Mr. Schaefer was pushed into R.K.O. in 1938 by Rockefeller Center (alias Nelson Rockefeller) and R.C.A. (alias David Sarnoff), which were both stuck with large R.K.O. holdings. The choice of a salesman to lick production and financial problems roused grave misgivings in Floyd Odium, whose Atlas Corp. was up to its ears in R.K.O. stock too, and Mr. Odium turned out to be right: the studio mess at R.K.O. was too much for able Salesman Schaefer...
These are some of the facts which George Gallup has uncovered as the result of a year's polling of the U.S. cinemaudience. R.K.O.'s able new President George Schaefer after a peek at private, unpublished Gallup polls of the habits, likes and dislikes of U.S. cinemaddicts, had commissioned the huge piece of research. R.K.O. put up the money for the most thorough study of the cinemaudience ever made...
...this chamber Harvard and Yale once had a billiard match, which Harvard won, 1 to 0. And on the room's center table, table six, Schaefer and Cochrane played off the 1915 world pool championships...