Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...business side." From Good Housekeeping he brought with him a smooth team, including Managing Editor Margaret Cousins. Then Mayes began thinning out McCall's syrupy "togetherness" campaign; the "togetherness" legend no longer appears on McCall's covers. On taking over, he coolly dumped $400,000 worth of stories and articles because they were too dull, began spending $150,000 a month on new editorial material by top writers and personalities (e.g., Phyllis McGinley, Moss Hart), v. $82,000 a month under Weise. Mayes also polished up McCall's color photography, has expanded McCall's autobiographical digests...
Harried Dodger officials have often wondered if the strong-armed kid from Brooklyn was worth the strain on their nerves. An architecture major at the University of Cincinnati, Koufax was signed as a $14,000 bonus baby at 19. In his second start, he struck out 14 Cincinnati Reds. But he soon developed streaks of harrowing wildness, last year led the league in wild pitches with 17 (but hit only one batter). Explains one Dodger coach: "When Koufax is wild, the ball not only is not near the plate-it's not near the batter...
Next year's budget will be another whopper: 20th will make 40 pictures worth $60 million, among them The Greatest Story Ever Told, John Brown's Body and The Battle of Leyte Gulf...
...fashioned notion that Hollywood ought to make lots of money by making lots of movies. Last week he announced that 20th is driving ahead on one of the biggest shooting schedules in its history: 60 pictures in production, with another 28 screenplays ready for the cameras. Among $20 million worth of pictures to be released before the end of 1959: William Faulkner's Requiem for a Nun, the French farce Palate, and a sexy shocker. The Chapman Report...
...museums and communities began dismantling the huge group shows, designed to satisfy tourists and help artists, that have become customary across the land. In size, the shows had often been barbaric. Visitors strolled through the exhibitions as if in a forest, ignoring the fact that any painting or sculpture worth seeing at all requires long contemplation...