Word: trends
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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 old M-G-M had to make concessions; as many as ten independent pictures may be made on the Metro lot in 1956, and in many cases the mouse has nibbled deep into the Lion's share of the profits...
...picture is not a pleasant one; there are few men willing to argue that a Boston version of NYU is a desirable end. In the face of this trend, the University has three alternatives: ignore the situation, adapt to it, or try to change...
While ignoring the trend may appear ludicrous, it is all too natural. The tendency to call Harvard an educational institution and let education end at the classroom door is strong, especially when a partial solution for undergraduates has been found in the House system...
...King of Swing is playing for dancing once again, and he is bucking a trend he himself started 20 years ago when Benny and his free-swinging sidemen had youngsters clustering around the bandstand to squeal and applaud their riffs and licks. Swing was the thing, and in 1938 Benny Goodman set an altitude record for jazzmen with his concert at Carnegie Hall...
...desegregation battle (see above) has given Negro publications a shot in the arm. But the long-term circulation trend has been going against them as Negroes win a surer place in U.S. society and switch to general-interest papers and magazines (TIME, Nov. 7). Last week, taking the hint, Chicago's 50-year-old weekly Defender (circ. 50,000) turned itself into a daily tabloid with a strong typographical resemblance to New York's Daily News and contents designed to compete with other Chicago dailies. The only Negro daily in the North, and the second...