Word: stewart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Loosed from their contractual shackles during the great television scare, and thirsty for the taste of tax relief, a host of famous actors have saddled up their "horseback corporations" and gone storming after creative control of U.S. film production. They have won an amazing measure of it. Jimmy Stewart made the breach, and Burt Lancaster, John Wayne, Alan Ladd, Gary Cooper and a score of others have followed. Almost two-thirds of film production at Warner and Columbia is now in the hands of independents. Paramount and Fox are yielding to the trend. Even rich...
...doctors and 500 lawyers make it "the sickest and crookedest town in the country." Then, brushing aside the jokes, the show tried to present Beverly Hills as a typical American town-and merely succeeded in stripping it of its glamour. Introduced were a churchgoing father of four (Jimmy Stewart), a home-loving, family-raising couple (Rory Calhoun and Lita Baron), a beauty who spends her time quizzing kids on the Bible (Eleanor Powell), a couple who have been ideally married for 30 years (the Sam Goldwyns). There was no telling how many fascinating residents were considered and rejected...
...speakers in eleven cities addressed themselves straight to the President; the messages were personal. Some were corny in their text, but all had a quality of rare sincerity. Ike got his first big laugh when Actor James Stewart, in Los Angeles, began haltingly: "Mr. President . . . General ... Sir .. ." But the President was plainly touched when Stewart, who had served under him as a bomber wing commander, concluded: "God bless you, Mr. President." When the Atlanta pickup came, both the President and Mamie gazed closely at the face of their old friend, Golfer Bobby Jones, as though trying to fathom Jones...
...Republican New York Herald Tribune, Columnists Joseph and Stewart Alsop reported: "Now almost everyone with access to the President believes that he means to run, bar unusual fatigue or a medical red light...
...Honolulu last week, J.C.S. Chairman Admiral Arthur W. Radford assured newsmen that Columnists Stewart and Joseph Alsop, the Cassandras of the defense program, were really too worried about the state of U.S. preparedness, notably the production rate of heavy jet bombers. Then reporters asked Radford about possible successors at the end of his term, 19 months hence. "Do you think General [Alfred M.] Gruenther might succeed you?" inquired one. "He would be a good man," said Radford. "Or maybe we ought to get Joe Alsop in there...