Word: slim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months since he became boss of RKO production, Dore Schary (rhymes, in Hollywood, with hoary sherry) had run off many a movie from such a slim start and with a slimmer budget. (The Boy will cost $500,000.) From the process Schary had emerged as the fair-haired hopeful of the film industry. Threatened with the loss of its lucrative British market (TIME, Sept. 22), Hollywood was feverishly seeking ways to make A pictures on B budgets, and to Schary that was an old experience...
...testimony to tell the commission that his shaky line needed a Government handout, and fast. But nothing the Government could do was fast enough for Monro. After he got back from testifying, his principal creditors got together and eased him out of the presidency. Operations Manager J. H. ("Slim") Carmichael, 40, onetime pilot, was upped into...
...contested ballot, two major issues hinge on the election of nine men to the City Council. "Plan E," a system for Cambridge managerial government, is up for reaffirmation. Praised and condemned with equal vehemence by rival factions, the plan has been operating during the past two years on a slim majority in the council and must rise or fall in the coming election...
...praise; they had a tight grip on most of the 948 delegates (representing 600,000 members). But they used it to strengthen their attack on U.E.'s small group of right-wingers, led by James B. Carey, one of the U.E.'s founders and onetime president. Slim Jim Carey, now the C.I.O.'s secretary-treasurer, knew that he had not the slimmest chance of unhorsing the top trio, but he carried his fight to the floor. Matles and Fitzgerald gave Carey the full name-calling treatment: "Liar . . . stab in the back . . . tool of the employers. . . . Redbaiting...
Across the river, in Brooklyn, the Dodgers hopefully sold out all the reserved seats in Ebbets Field for the World Series, but had to postpone celebrating so long as the St. Louis Cardinals had a slim mathematical chance of tying them. At Ebbets Field, as in Yankee Stadium, the spotlight had to seek out the manager. Baseball's winning managers, 1947 style, were a long way from the loudmouth, whoop & holler style of Leo (The Lip) Durocher...