Word: topflighters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, to help them get the ingredient of truth, a topflight German newsman, Erik Reger, was in the U.S. to report on ECA and the U.N. A group of U.S. newspapers and the Columbia network had sponsored Reger's trip, after hearing of the good job he did in covering the last London conference...
...trip to Europe with the qualifying merit badge). At Rutgers, he was varsity quarterback, lacrosse letterman, diver on the swimming team, middleweight boxing champion, a fair musician, and a near miss at Phi Beta Kappa. When Rudy Vallee was king of the crooners, Ozzie was a topflight bandleader. Last week, at 41, he was still riding high. His husband-&-wife program (CBS, Fri. 9:30 p.m., E.S.T.) was the best in its category, with a 10.5 Hooperating...
...Topflight performances are given by Claudette Colbert as the wife and Robert Cummings as the passing here. Though Miss Colbert is no longer the bathing beauty she was in Sign of the Cross, she does her best to convey an air of youthful innocence and terror. Her best is good enough. Cummings is reminiscent of the debonair pre-war Robert Montgomery, and a far cry from the usual neurotic hard-drinking males who presently haunt the screen. Don Amcche is adequate as the husband though he makes an unexpected "heavy." In fact the only weak spot is debut of Hazel...
...Valley of Decision, he had to sign for three additional pictures at $45,000, $55,000 and $65,000 respectively. One of these, The Yearling, has been made. At the time Peck made it he was worth at least $150,000 a picture (standard fee for topflight stars). Today, if he chose to operate that way, he might command and get $200,000 or more. But he will make two more pictures for M-G-M-at $55,000 and $65,000. His sensible attitude: "Every good picture lengthens your screen life...
Some of the hopeful new findings were reported last week in a book called Hearing and Deafness: A Guide for Laymen (Murray Hill Books; $5). The authors are a group of topflight experts headed by Dr. Hallowell Davis, longtime Harvard physiologist, now research professor of otolaryngology at St. Louis' Washington University...