Word: distributor
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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...
...Mayor Richardson Dilworth,* longtime political foe of Fellow Democrat Blanc. Cracked Dilworth: "Mr. Blanc thinks he's going to get all the votes of the women's clubs by denouncing sin." In turn, Blanc darkly noted that Dilworth's former law partners were representing the film distributor, declared: "In my opinion, the mayor is using his elective office to help his old law firm...
FAST-MOVING VOLKSWAGEN, which accounted for more than $75 million of the $175 million foreign-car sales in U.S. last year, now faces Government roadblock. In antitrust suit, Justice Department charged that major U.S. distributor, Volkswagen of America, fixed wholesale and retail prices, eliminated competition among its own 14 distributors and 350 dealers by giving them exclusive sales territories, forced dealers to sell only to buyers living in their sales areas...
...picture, a Colette story in which a teenaged boy is seduced by an older woman, was screened by a censorship board in Chicago more than two years ago and denied a permit because, the board claimed, the film was obscene. Lawyers for the U.S. distributor. Times Film Corp., set out to prove that 1) the picture is not obscene, and 2) the city's censorship ordinance is unconstitutional. They did not get far on either count. Chicago Police Commissioner Timothy J. O'Connor upheld his citizens' board, explained to a master in chancery that The Game...
...LIQUOR SALES, in which a wholesaler forces dealer to take less popular brands before he can get scarce, top-quality liquors, are illegal, U.S. Supreme Court ruled. Case was brought against Magnolia Liquor Co., the sole Seagram's distributor in New Orleans, which required dealers to take Seagram's Ancient Bottle and 7 Crown brands in order to get scarce Scotch and Seagram...