Word: twentieths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Twentieth century liners shrank the Atlantic almost to lake-size, but travelers could still relax in a deck chair and feel suspended in time for a week-on the older, sedater liners (the S.S. United States last month crossed in 3 days 10 hrs. 40 min., barely enough time to make friends with the deck steward). In 1927, a daring young man in a flying crate, name of Lindbergh, made his way from New York to Paris in 33½ hrs. Millions who have followed his route since then-immersed in mystery stories, poker or the semistupor of Dramamine-have...
...afternoon, President Spyros Skouras of Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., who lives in the New York suburb of Rye, offered a lift home to his neighbor, Jed Harris, the New York theatrical producer. Harris accepted. This is what happened afterward, as he recalls...
Skouras' impulsiveness pays off. His earnings, combined with those of the two brothers he calls Charlie (pronounced tsolly) and George (pronounced zuds), are reputed to top the takes of even such mighty families as the Shuberts and the Schencks. As president of Twentieth Century-Fox, Spyros heads the second biggest producing company in the world,* whose Hollywood studio, run by Vice President Darryl Zanuck, turns out some 40 feature pictures a year. As head of National Theaters, comprising some 550 houses scattered around the West, Charlie runs the nation's second largest theater chain. With younger brother George...
That's what Tommy got, and he struck out. This event marked the Texas League debut of Jerome Herman "Dizzy" Dean. Twentieth Century Fox has made a few years in Dean's life into a colorful motion picture...
...General Curtis LeMay, who built SAC into a powerful ready-force, has been moved to Washington as Vandenberg's vice chief of staff (TIME, March 10). Curt LeMay switched jobs with General Nathan Twining, who helped build up SAC's World War II predecessor, the B-29 Twentieth Air Force in the Pacific. Vandenberg is well anchored in Europe with Lieut. General Lauris Norstad, Eisenhower's air chief at SHAPE and commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe; and in the Pacific with Lieut. General Otto P. ("Opie") Weyland, commander of Far East Air Forces...