Word: warners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pale blue eyes hovering over everything from finances to falsies, Darryl F. Zanuck was warming up to another 18-hour day as production boss of 20th Century-Fox and pacesetter for the U.S. cinema. No longer the wonder boy who at 25 ran the Warner lot, Zanuck at 47 is something no less phenomenal. In 142 Ibs. and a carefully measured 5 ft. 6¾ in., he embodies what may be nature's ultimate effort to equip the species for outstanding success in Hollywood. Producer Zanuck is richly endowed with tough-mindedness, talent, an outsized ego, and a glutton...
Others retiring include: Thomas Lee Kelley, professor of Education, a joint author of the much used Standford Achievement Tests. Bremer Whidden Pond, Charles Eliot Professor of Landscape Architecture. Walter Eugene Clark, Wales Professor of Sanskrit. Kurt Hermann Thoma, Charles A. Brackett Professor of Oral Pathology. Langdon Warner, curator of the Oriental Department of the Fogg Museum,Elizabeth Bangs Bryant, assistant curator of insects, and James Lawder Gamble, professor of Pediatrics
Second period: Potter (unassisted) (Y), 0:35; Warner (unassisted) (Y), 1;45; Rockefeller (unassisted) (Y), 2:00; Reeve (Herman) (Y), 4:51; Mauran (unassisted), 8:16; Plissner (Post), 10:26; Folan (Reeve...
...busily making westerns, Cinemactress Sally (Bad Girl) Eilers complained that everyone in Hollywood "has become society-conscious. That trend started when Elsa Maxwell came out here to give parties and when people like Darryl Zanuck and Jack Warner hobnobbed with international society on the Riviera...
What makes Riding High even better entertainment is the casting of a guileful, effortless Bing Crosby in the old Warner Baxter role of a happy-go-lucky racehorse owner-a part which fits Horse-Fancier Crosby as comfortably as the old clothes it gives him to wear. He rebels against the efforts of his fiancee and her moneybags father to imprison him in a job as the head of a paper box factory. Then, with the help of his fiancee's younger sister (who loves him from the start) and a colorful assortment of race-track characters, he scrounges...