Word: bros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hair and shout, "I got lips that long to kiss you." The freckle-faced Bantams-Mike Kirchner, 12, and his brothers Jeff, 10, and Fritz, 9-honed their gritty style singing for coins on the beach at Venice, Calif., recently landed a recording and five-picture contract with Warner Bros. They are already TV veterans, are now shooting their first film Methuselah Jones, the saga of a sub-teen preacher who sings all his sermons...
...Congress in 1962 to prevent the sale of drugs for which overblown advertising claims have been made. In last week's test case, the victim was the Warner-Lambert Pharmaceutical Co., maker of some of the best-known products on the market (Listerine, Bromo-Seltzer, Dentyne, Smith Bros. cough drops...
Some of the stock market's troubles stem from a worsening shortage of investment money. Salomon Bros. & Hutzler, a leading bond-trading house, predicted that commercial banks will have $3 billion less to put into long-term credit this year than last. With a swiftness that startled even investment men, the money shortage has driven interest rates on some new bond issues to 45-year peaks, prompting investors to sell stocks in order to buy bonds. Last week $40 million of Long Island Lighting Co. bonds went on sale with a 5.13% interest return, one of the highest yields...
Died. Robert Rossen, 57, Hollywood producerdirector, a onetime boxer from Manhattan's Lower East Side who, after some years as a Warner Bros, scriptwriter, turned to making his own movies "about things I knew as a kid," such as Body and Soul, 1949's Oscar-winning All the King's Men and The Hustler; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Died. Harold Freedman, 69, literary agent, a onetime actor who turned in his best performances peddling (for a 10% commission) Broadway shows to Hollywood, including Hello, Dolly! to 20th Century-Fox for $2,000,000, and My Fair Lady to Warner Bros, for $5,500,000 and 47½% of the gross over $20 million-highest price ever paid for movie rights; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...