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The successful venture of Spyros Skouras [TIME, Aug. 11 ] and his associates into the movie-theater world should prove conclusively that when Greek meets Greek, they do not necessarily open a restaurant.
"From now on, you're the manager," said Skouras.
Skouras' impulsiveness pays off. His earnings, combined with those of the two brothers he calls Charlie (pronounced tsolly) and George (pronounced zuds), are reputed to top the takes of even such mighty families as the Shuberts and the Schencks. As president of Twentieth Century-Fox, Spyros heads the second...
There is a legend that, back in their St. Louis days, the bull-necked Skourases sometimes wrestled film exhibitors for rentals. Today, their principal form of exercise is golf, but all three are still health fanatics and diet cranks. Skourases gobble quantities of fruit, cheese, olive oil and yogurt-the latter brewed from a culture developed by Mrs. Charles Skouras. Both Spyros and Charles have massage tables, heat cabinets and showers built into their offices, where, stripped to their fine coats of curly fur, they hold conferences, issue commands, and shout dictation to stenographers from whom they are concealed...
Said Skouras: "I think I can do more for my country in my private life"-a paradox which, true or false, lost nothing from its delivery in a steam bath.