Word: fleischer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...divots), and that 15 million could use them. Sales were short until makers started advertising hair pieces in major magazines and newspapers five years ago. Since then, annual sales of such bigwigs as Hollywood's Max Factor & Co., Manhattan's House of Louis Feder Inc., and Joseph-Fleischer & Co. (Fleischer will make the Sears toupees from imported hair) have climbed close to $1,000,000 each. Total U.S. sales are estimated at $15 million a year. Says Louis Feder, a wigger himself: "We have put across the idea that a man is not completely dressed unless...
...RITA FLEISCHER Flushing...
Pragmatist. In Louisville, when the bank refused payment on his G.I. insurance dividend check made out for $72,000,000,000, Harold Fleischer pondered officials' advice to "frame it or take it up with the Veterans Administration," decided...
...stupefied" a critic with his technique and profound insight and his colleagues by memorizing the Defossez in two days. Other front-runners in the final twelve were Denver-born John Browning, 23, and Poland's Andrzej Czajkowski (pronounced Tchaikovsky), 20. On the advice of Manhattan's Leon Fleischer, who won the last piano Concpurs, Browning chose Brahms's Concerto No. 2 for his big selection, playing it stunningly, and he was the first finalist to bring order out of the Defossez chaos. Czajkowski reminded observers of Chopin (he is attractive to women and prefers composing to playing...
Violent Saturday (20th Century-Fox) is a big, rough, savvy sort of pell-meller-perhaps the best thing of its crude kind that Hollywood has offered in 1955. The idea of the picture, trenchantly written by Sydney Boehm and slickly directed by Richard Fleischer, is as simple and as nerve-racking, as a bomb. Three thugs arrive in a small Arizona mining town to hold up the bank. While the robbers prepare their plans, while the bomb ticks away in the mind, the moviegoer stares with itchy horror into the faces and the lives of the innocent bystanders who will...