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...Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon the studio head Monroe Stahr, worried by union activity under his nose, orders the screenwriting department to send him a two page "treatment" of the Communist Manifesto. No doubt many of the blacklistees never read any more Marx than Stahr did, but they found that they had to pay for it later. The most remarkable and admirable thing about the Hollywood Ten still, is that they took responsibility for their past and showed a willingness to proclaim their ownership of a collective legacy of principle. Some smart guys think they should have done things differently...
...Elvis J. Stahr, President
Environmentalists sharply dispute the sheep ranchers' claim that the coyotes are now slaughtering 800,000 lambs per year. Says National Audubon Society President Elvis J. Stahr: "The figures ... are unreliable, unscientific and quite possibly self-serving. Poisons simply are not the answer to the coyote problem. If they were, the problem should no longer exist." Despite its preference for aerial shooting and trapping, however, the EPA agreed last month to permit the use of the M44 on private land. Since roughly 12 million sheep graze at least part of the time on federal land, wool growers soon may seek...
...early unpublished draft of Tender . in which the novel's central figure was a movie cameraman. (The only boat Latham misses on this score is The Beautiful and the Damned , where Joseph Bloeckman, a self-made movie entrepreneur, hints of such later Fitzgerald heroes as Gatsby and Monroe Stahr, the tycoon Hollywood producer drawn from MGM "boy genius" Irving Thalberg...
Within the past year countless other heads of U.S. colleges and universities have also quit, well before retirement age. They include U.C.L.A.'s Franklin Murphy, 52, Indiana's Elvis J. Stahr, 52, Swarthmore's Courtney Smith, 51, Kentucky's John W. Oswald, 50, San Francisco State's John Summerskill, 43, and Hawaii's Thomas Hamilton...