Word: williams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...WILLIAM DORAN CURTIS St. Joseph's Church Jasper, Minn...
...appearing in Bridge on the River Kwai, William Holden agreed to 10% of the gross, but for tax reasons wanted it paid to him at the rate of only $50,000 a year. The picture has already made so much money (between $20 and $30 million) that Holden's share now stands at between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000. Not only will it take 40-year-old Holden at least 40 years to get the last of his money, but Columbia can in the meantime invest it and make well over $50,000 a year, thus...
...cause by literate or semiliterate types from all the stages of show business. Determined readers could dip into an essay on sin in the cinema by a translator of foreign subtitles named Herman Weinberg ("Surely, it is not sophistication to revel in bosoms and behinds"). They could sample Playwright William Saroyan at his most incomprehensible ("Squawking is futile unless it's something else at the same time, such as art, which is also futile unless it is something else at the same time, such as willing"). But for all its words, what the weighty issue added...
Surveying the battlefield, British Aluminium Director William J. Thomas said ruefully: "We were sitting ducks." Said a spokesman for the winners: "If you asked me what mistake they made, I'd reply in one word: arrogance. Their kind applauds the rules and practices of capitalism only when it suits them...
...There is an ugly tie-up between top labor in Massachusetts and the ADA," charged William V. Ward, president of the State Council of State, County, and Municipal Employees. "It was after studying Soloway's ADA material that the labor council broke up and officially declared itself in opposition to Governor Furcolo's program...