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Crazylegs (Hall Bartlett; Republic) is an agreeably amateurish movie about professional football players. Produced in Hollywood by Hall (Navajo) Bartlett on a shoestring ($145,000), the film tells the life story of Wisconsin's All-America Elroy ("Crazylegs") Hirsch and is chiefly remarkable for the fact that Footballer Hirsch...
Assailant Thomson and Victim Meuler, both automobile men, had taken to each other at their first chance meeting two years ago. Six months later, full of hope and mutual admiration, they formed a partnership and bought a Nash agency (the T and M Motors) in Newport. It was a shoestring...
Very fitful, in the current Room Service, is the fun spawned of a shoestring producer living on tick with his cast while desperately trying to snag a backer. The whole first act is drearily obstreperous-for one reason because the cast plays straight to the audience, as though the backer...
Of nearly 1,000 shoestring air-cargo lines started by ex-service airmen after World War II, only a handful survived. Last week the two biggest survivors, Robert W. Prescott's Flying Tiger Line, Inc. (TIME, Nov. 5, 1945 et seq.) and Tom and Earl Slick's Slick...
Bill Berns, 33, is a square-faced radio executive with a crew cut, easy manner, busy brain, and a shoestring for a wallet. As program director for ABC's Manhattan outlet, WABC, Berns's job is putting entertainment and public-service items on his station on a practically...