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Oddly enough, the three networks did relatively poorly: while grossing $904 million from time and program sales, they netted only $79 million before taxes, a mere 8.7% of the gross-compared with such corporations as Amerada Petroleum (49%). One reason is the high cost of filming documentaries and maintaining big...
Instant Tears. In her newest film, Up the Down Staircase, Sandy gracefully portrays the grim trials and triumphs of a green young teacher in a New York City slum school. Staircase was the official U.S. entry at the Moscow Film Festival in July. Sandy was there, rubbernecking and restaurant sampling...
O'Brien brought the company back to profits so far this year of $9,728,000, the highest earnings figure since 1959. MGM has sparingly sold off its film library to television, still has 1,200 films in the vault, including Gone With the Wind, for which the company...
Then came World War II-and with it a boom in letter writing, mostly between forlorn servicemen and their wives and girls. Katz came up with Rite-Kit, an inexpensive stationery box that doubled as a writing surface. He formed his own company, and by war's end it...
Reports of the death of Christianity, as Beatle John Lennon discovered this month, are greatly exaggerated. So, too, are reports of the show-business death of John Lennon. The exaggeration about the Beatles, though, may not be so fanciful. By the end of last week, with only two stops left...