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Fanny (book by S. N. Behrman & Joshua Logan, based on a trilogy by Marcel Pagnol; music and lyrics by Harold Rome) might have come off far better had it been done on a shoestring. For its very Gallic story of the Marseille waterfront-of a young girl who finds herself...
Begun on a shoestring, Pace e Libertà got off to a slow start, but now is growing by leaps and bounds. Its paid circulation is 70,000, and an almost equal number of copies are distributed free, many of them to the Communists themselves. Recently Sogno got enough funds...
In the telling, Contessa trails a shoestring of good description: the Riviera, where the "international set gathers the way an annual fungus gathers on a beautiful tree"; the public-relations counselor, "who can be many things-some of them punishable by law"; the unusual Hollywood romance: "You could tell it...
Most Good on a Shoestring. Since its founding in 1895 by the late Obstetrician Joseph Bolivar De Lee, the center has always operated on a shoestring (1954 budget: $225,000, from the Community Fund and individual contributions), nevertheless has delivered some 104,000 babies, trained 1,154 doctors and 12...
In 1951, he began making movie shorts which could be sold to TV chains as well. He hired Free-Lancer Sidney Carroll as scriptwriter, scraped together $8,000 and turned out The Gentleman in Room 6, a 20-minute horror fantasy about Hitler. Still on a shoestring, he went to...