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The Thin Edge. A score of smaller Hollywood competitors are already aboard the TV bandwagon. They range from shoestring producers to such established companies as Jerry Fairbanks, Inc., which employs a timesaving three-camera technique (TIME, March 6, 1950). Broidy Productions (owned by a brother of the head of Monogram...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Hollywood Is Humming | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

On a shoestring budget, United Artists has produced a powerful picture. "The Well" owes its unusual impact to realistic handling of a brutal social phenomenon--the race riot. For those who haven't seen a race not build up, for those who haven't seen a bunch of plain ordinary...

Author: By William Burden, | Title: The Well | 10/26/1951 | See Source »

Stretching the String. Like Henry Kaiser himself, Leo Harvey has the knack of getting what he wants from the Government and working a shoestring into a golden cord. His shoestring was the one-man Los Angeles machine shop which he started in 1913. Born in Latvia, Harvey had learned the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALUMINUM: Move Over! | 9/10/1951 | See Source »

Since its longtime publisher, Curtis Johnson, died last October, the rich daily has been run by an editorial board, overseen by banks, has had no top boss. Last week it got one. In as publisher and part owner stepped Hoosier-born Ralph Nicholson, 52, who has made a reputation for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hoosier Bargain | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

Shoestring Start. The first classes met at the Free University in 1948, in a handful of shoddy houses and what was left of the research buildings of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. Two years earlier, in the Eastern sector, the Soviets had reopened the old University of Berlin. But they did...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Freie Universitat | 8/6/1951 | See Source »

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