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An explosion shattered windows in the Turkish consulate in Salonika, Greece's second largest city, and broke a single pane of glass at the modest house near by where the late great Kemal Ataturk, founder of modern Turkey, had been born to a minor official of the Ottoman Empire...
Last week, her decks awash with some 120 of the international set's most solvent globetrotters, the Achilleus set sail from Venice to tour the Isles of Greece. On her quarterdeck, resplendent in the blue-and-gold of what seemed to be the official uniform of a six-star...
¶ Cinemogul Spyros Skouras flew into Johannesburg to add a new string of theaters to his 20th Century-Fox empire. He was reportedly prepared to pay $7,000,000 for Africa Theaters, Ltd., whose more than 200 movie houses would give him a virtual film monopoly in east, central and...
Died. Charles P. Skouras, 65, one of the last of the great cinemoguls, president of the Fox West Coast Theaters chain and of National Theaters, Inc. (totaling 650 theaters); of a heart ailment; in Los Angeles. Son of a Greek farmer, dynamic Charlie Skouras emigrated to the U.S. at 19...
Television, which Skouras once called "the greatest enemy the film industry ever had," had also helped Hollywood in a backhanded way. By killing off the market for B pictures, it forced Hollywood to concentrate on bigger and better productions. This has paid off at the box office, where gross is...