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Spyros Skouras, who as boss of 20th Century-Fox from 1942 to 1962 brought out such sagas as Lifeboat and Titanic, last week took the lead in another kind of sea drama. At a Washington press conference, the 72-year-old argonaut announced that the Prudential Lines, a seven-ship...
Skouras says he is willing to put in some $20 million of his own, has large financing from Marine Midland Trust Co. and Chase Manhattan Bank, and wants the Government to ante up about $125 million. The cost is stiff-but anything would be a bargain if it could help...
Passenger Complaints. Listening approvingly at Skouras' elbow was the man who has prodded all the shipping executives to search for new solutions: Nicholas Johnson, a 30-year-old landlubber and former law professor (at the University of California), who was named Maritime Administrator 18 months ago by Lyndon Johnson...
Died. Julia Ghilione Skouras, 67, widow of Movie Theater-Chain Executive George P. Skouras (over 200 United Artists houses in 50 cities), herself the tireless, unpaid international chairman of Boys Towns of Italy, who regularly toiled 14 hours a day organizing committees and arranging benefits to support the ten towns...
Zanuck won everything, quietly and with ease. Skouras was made chairman of the board (at the pruned salary of $50,000 a year); Zanuck and three Zanuck men were added to the eleven-man board. Then three Zanuck foes quit, giving him something close to rule by decree. "I'...