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Last week Green drew a bead on a new target: 20th Century-Fox Film Corp. As spokesman for about $600,000 of the company's stock (which at current market prices represents about 40,000 shares), he charged President Spyros Skouras and Production Boss Darryl Zanuck with "false and...
Honored with medallions for helping to promote good will and understanding among Protestants, Catholics and Jews were Theatrical Producer John Golden, Publishers William Randolph Hearst Jr., Walter D. Fuller and Jack R. Howard, Comedian Danny Kaye, RCA's Chairman David Sarnoff (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), 20th Century-Fox's...
Most Greek Orthodox churches in the U.S. are small and poor chiefly because of the scattered numbers of their congregations (total U.S. membership: 1,000,000). Ten years ago, while attending services in Los Angeles' tiny Church of the Annunciation, Charles P. Skouras, president of National Theaters, decided that...
...worked on its construction. He assigned one of his business aides, Artist William T. Chavalas, to the job of decorating the church. To raise money he got the help of his brothers, Moviemen Spyros (20th Century-Fox) and George (United Artists Theatres); among the three of them, the Skourases put up about...
This week Charles Skouras walked into the new cathedral, looked up approvingly at the chandeliers (redesigned twice before they satisfied him) and the huge painting of the tree of Jesse on the ceiling. Said Skouras, who began his career in the U.S. as a hotel busboy: "This is my appreciation...