Word: wizard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Al (for Alexander) Lichtman, 69, pioneer film distributor, onetime president of United Artists, vice president of M-G-M and 20th Century-Fox (executive producer of Boys Town, The Wizard of Oz); of a heart attack; in West Los Angeles. Two years ago, ailing from asthma and heart trouble, Hungarian-born Lichtman retired from Fox, holed up in Manhattan's Ritz Tower, quietly went to work on a story which no one wanted. A war novel, it had been kicking around producers' offices for about eight years, was considered too diffuse and sprawling for the screen. Lichtman...
...Wizard. But General Dynamics' competence in weaponry stacks the cards heavily against rapid growth of the corporation's civilian lines. Vital defense projects are bound to grow rather than shrink in the next few years. Convair and RCA have already submitted to the Defense Department plans for an anti-missile missile, the Wizard II, which could search out an incoming enemy ICBM and explode it high in the atmosphere. The Wizard could conceivably be put into production by 1965 (at a cost of up to $5 billion) if the Defense Department gives an immediate go-ahead...
...local rug merchant came around to take back his carpeting. Last fall. $215,000 in debt, Belin filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy. He explained that the Texas insurance companies that were to buy the bond issue were under investigation and that one was headed by Boy Wizard Ben-Jack Cage, who had been convicted of embezzlement (TIME, Nov. 4). But as Missouri newspapers soon found out, money was not the only root of the university's evils...
...Illinois' grey-maned, smooth-talking Everett McKinley ("The Wizard of Ooze") Dirksen, 61, is generally expected to become Senate Republican leader when William Fife Knowland goes off at session's end to run for governor of California. Even Dwight Eisenhower, who always before made it his practice to steer clear of Senate internal affairs, is reminding G.O.P. Senators that Dirksen would serve their purposes better in the long run than such liberal Republicans as New York's Jacob Javits or New Jersey's Clifford Case. Best guess on who persuaded Ike to plead Dirksen...
...General White also confirmed that the Air Force is working on a contramissile (antimissile missile). Name: Wizard. Making a contramissile accurate enough to intercept an enemy ballistic missile "will be a terrifically difficult problem," said White, "but I think we will lick...