Word: skourases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meanwhile, 20th Century-Fox's Field Marshal Zanuck was busy on the home front. Irritated by the rising sway of the stockbrokers who purged Fox President Spyros Skouras, Zanuck set himself up as a one-man Pentagon and declared war. Calling for a special meeting of the Fox board...
Dangerous Declaration. King Spyros was not actually fired last week. He was merely forced to take a giant cut in salary (down to a bony $50,000 a year) and a total loss of power. Who will succeed him? Among the first names circled were Max Youngstein, now working as...
The lights went down at the 20th Century-Fox stockholders' meeting last week as Spyros Skouras-beneficent impresario of a troubled corporation-happily announced a preview showing of scenes from new Fox films. The ploy failed. Twenty minutes of movies helped no one to forget that Fox lost $22.5...
Rome-and the rest of the world-burned with prurient curiosity. Last week, while unconcernedly directing her lawyer to terminate the services of hangdog Fourth Husband Eddie Fisher, Elizabeth Taylor, 30, tirelessly sought to turn a more prideful head. Liz's latest quarry, the Mark Antony to her Cleopatra...
∙ Striving to fend off the mounting wrath of Wall Street investors over movie-making losses that have risen to more than $30 million in the past three years, 20th Century-Fox Film Corp. last week elected amiable Judge Samuel I. Rosenman, 66, chairman of the board. Lawyer Rosenman. former...