Word: made
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Selznick got few comments. Perhaps he was unduly worried about the $5,000,000 the picture has to make before it begins to earn any profits at all. Perhaps he was worrying about something else. Night be fore, Producer Selznick made a confession that had the ring of truth. Said he of Gone With the Wind: "At noon I think it's divine, at midnight I think it's lousy...
Sometimes I think it's the greatest picture ever made. But if it's only a great picture, I'll still be satisfied...
...Next War, telling how Britain might seduce the U. S. into the coming war against Germany. When U. S. Senator Gerald P. Nye read a chapter from this book (which he said Britain had tried to suppress) into the Congressional Record, Porter Sargent had 10,000 reprints made, sent them, with a one-page mimeograph of his own observations, to his mailing list of educators. They immediately called for more...
...will employ vast numbers of new workers is just a notion: last year 100,000 went to Diesel schools, only 4,000 got jobs. Reason: Diesel engineering recruits most of its workers from gasoline engineers, who can learn Diesel work in a week or two. Similarly, air conditioning employs made-over plumbers...
Dooley. He gave up his untidy house in town, moved out to a country home near Stamford, Conn. There he clothed his immensity in a pair of frayed trousers and a sweatshirt. But he remained a member of Manhattan's exclusive Racquet & Tennis Club, wore costly suits made by a Fifth Avenue tailor when he went to town...