Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...respect even the most dubious award. For a film it can mean more than $1,000,000 in increased grosses. For an actor the impact is greater: Walter Matthau's salary quintupled after he received his Oscar. George Kennedy's story is twice as good: his fee went from $20,000 to $200,000 per film. "Before Cat Ballon," recalls Lee Marvin, "I was what they call a good back-up actor. I was getting money in five figures before the Oscar. For the last one, Paint Your Wagon, I got a million dollars, plus 10%. From...
...Benti, CBS has an undoubted if minor exclusive: he is the nation's only Italian-Irish newscaster who is also a dropout from four Brooklyn high schools. After hitches in the Army and the Air Force, where he got his high school diploma, Benti in 1954 went to Indiana State Teachers' College on the G.I. Bill, later earned his master's at Iowa University...
...since the British Isles went Protestant...
Last year, the golfers went into the Cornell match at Ithica with the same winning record. The Cornell squad had an undefeated record, but Harvard solved their course and walked over...
Dorwart's experience should prove valuable. During the NCAA tournament last year, he pitched exceptional ball, shutting out the University of Connecticut, 3-0, and holding a great-hitting Southern Illinois team to one run in a 2-1 Crimson defeat. "Everything just went right for me that day against SIU," Bob said...