Word: warners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trail led to a Chicago music concern-which had previously sold its rights to a subsidiary of Warner Bros.-and thence to Manhattan. Together with three partners (including Idea-Man Selwyn), Duke finally managed to buy the movie rights to one version of the song* for $1,000. Then he registered the title, for a prospective movie. To his dismay, he found that another Hollywood producer had beaten him to the draw. Fifteen minutes after the general's speech, Darryl Zanuck had registered the same title...
Lightning Strikes Twice (Warner) tells an even unlikelier tale than its title suggests. It all hinges on the fact that a good friend (Mercedes McCambridge) of an accused murderer (Richard Todd) gets a seat on the jury that hears his case...
Storm Warning (Warner). A traveling dress model (Ginger Rogers) stops off in a Southern town to visit her married sister (Doris Day). She hardly sets foot on the town's strangely dark and empty main street when she stumbles on a violent scene: a sheeted mob of Ku Klux Klansmen hauls a man out of jail, beats him, shoots him down on the sidewalk...
...extensively." Then he put up his proposition: How about lining up some basketball friends of his, picking up some big, easy money by making games come out right for Gambler Sollazzo? Ed Gard agreed. So, when it was put up to them in turn, did Roth, Roman and Warner of C.C.N.Y. Schaff of N.Y.U. was willing, but, said Hogan, got turned down when he approached another N.Y.U. player, and became "relatively inactive...
...Roth, Ed Roman and All-America Ed Warner, said Hogan. They did their best for Gambler Sollazzo in three games in the Garden during December and January. C.C.N.Y., the heavy pre-game favorite each time, lost to Missouri (54-37), Arizona (41-38) and Boston College (63-59). Roth collected $4,650, Roman $3,250 and Warner (who was out with injuries for one game) $2,500. Ed Gard got commissions...