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...years ago, Skouras started his American career as a hotel busboy. He and two brothers bought into a nickelodeon in 1914, then built their $4,000 investment into a chain of moneymaking movie palaces. Skouras also took over the Fox Metropolitan theater group, rescued it from bankruptcy and wound up in 1942 as head of the entire 20th Century-Fox empire. He pioneered revolutionary techniques like CinemaScope and presided over the production of dozens of screen classics, including The Robe, The Snake Pit and Gentleman's Agreement. Blamed for massive losses incurred partly by the $30 million epic Cleopatra...
...silence over the pact only to comment weakly: "We hope it may have an effect for the good." Indian officials in New Delhi and Washington hastened to assure American policymakers that the document was in no way directed against the U.S. But there was no disguising that Washington was wounded-and that the wound was largely self-inflicted. In its overriding preoccupation with India's two greatest enemies, Pakistan and China, the U.S. simply left New Delhi nowhere to go but Moscow. Said the liberal daily Hindustan Times of New Delhi, which was unhappy about the treaty...
Although Madame lived in a 36-room Park Avenue apartment, she would try to save money by prowling her company's offices, flicking off lights. Her secretary would be dispatched to stocking sales at Bloomingdale's basement. Madame bought jewelry and art in huge quantities; she wound up with second-rate works by most of the first-rate artists of the century. "I may not have quality," she admitted, "but I have quantity. Quality's nice, but quantity makes a show...
...rice and jute fields stretching over the Ganges Delta as far as the eye can see belie the savage misfortunes that have befallen its people. The soil is so rich it sprouts vegetation at the drop of a seed, yet that has not prevented Bengal from becoming a festering wound of poverty. Nature can be as brutal as it is bountiful, lashing the land with vicious cyclones and flooding it annually with the spillover from the Ganges and the Brahmaputra rivers...
...South Side to become a jockey. "How was I to know," he later sighed, "that I was going to grow up to be 6 ft. 2 in. and 220 lbs.?" Neloy took a $5-a-week job as a groom. He was hired by the Phipps family and wound up training such moneymakers as Successor and Buckpasser. In 1966 Neloy earned a record $2,456,250 for the Phipps' stables...