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Coming to the U.S. in 1956, Chesler bought a major interest in a company, which then acquired the Warner Bros, film library for TV and became Associated Artists Productions Corp. After a boardroom battle, Chesler signed a deal to sell 820,000 shares of Associated to National Telefilm Associates, Inc., though he controlled only 400,000 shares; later Chesler backed off and sold for a higher price to United Artists. To end a court fight, United Artists later paid $2,000,000 to N.T.A. The deal hurt Chesler's reputation on Wall Street-but it did not halt...
...Vegas, Nev., the hearses and funeral cars of Bunker Bros. Mortuary are painted baby blue...
Precisely at 3 o'clock one afternoon last week, a Comet 4 jetliner landed at Moscow's Vrukovo Airport and began to disgorge a troop of Britons incongruously decked out in Russian-style fur hats, rented from London's famed provider of borrowed finery, Moss Bros. As the visitors emerged into the unseasonable warmth (41°), a Soviet honor guard sprang to attention, bayonets flashing in the sunlight, and a military band broke into God Save the Queen. Beaming broadly, Nikita Khrushchev doffed his own beaver hat and told Prime Minister Harold Macmillan: "We welcome...
...Asano and Mrs. Jacoby on board ship for Japan. A grieving widower, he has lost a daughter at Hiroshima; she, a son fighting the Japanese. What seems to make Mrs. Jacoby irresistible to Mr. Asano is that she keeps dropping magazines and mothers his cold with Smith Bros, cough drops. The couple soon let woebegones be woebegones, but Mrs. Jacoby's daughter and diplomat son-in-law plant cacti in the path of true love. Only at play's end is Mrs. Jacoby set to make "kosher sukiyaki" her dish of life...
Ingratitude. Gunshy's suet-headed hero was born one night last fall at a party at the home of Bill Orr, a Warner Bros. TV producer. Recalls Maverick Scriptwriter Marion (See Here, Private) Hargrove: "I said it would be fine if the classic opener was carried a step further -the long street, the shot of the marshal entering. The marshal takes a quick draw and fires and fires and misses." By the end of the evening, Hargrove and Orr had worked out a rough plot, chosen their title. Hargrove picked NBC's Gunsmoke as his target, he says...