Word: slater
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Dorothy Lamour (nee Slater), 34, cinema sarongstress and leading lady to Hope and Crosby (Road to Utopia, Road to Morocco, etc.), and second husband William Ross Howard III, 42, wartime A.A.F. major now an advertising executive: their second child, second son; in Los Angeles. Name: Richard Thompson. Weight...
...These words about a new English novel by Humphrey Slater made me turn immediately to the novel itself and then to Studio Head Louis B. Mayer, with the recommendation that TIME'S judgment should be followed and the novel purchased at once, if available...
...Things moved fast. Mr. Slater, the author, was met by our representative in London, and Conspirator purchased from him on April 22, 1948, three days after the date of TIME'S issue. The following day Slater was approached by three other major American studios, all equally inspired by the TIME review. They arrived too late...
...Grimes" is not a very good argument for opera in English, and it cannot fall back on the translation excuse. The fault lies with librettist Montagu Slater. He doesn't seem to think in musical terms, so that there is a lot of pretty tedious recitative, much of which is superfluous. The verbosity has apparently proved too much for Britten, for his music, though following thought and mood, does not fit the words very skillfully. This failing was exaggerated Thursday night by poor diction on the part of both soloists and chorus...
...American Export started American Overseas in 1937 to buck Pan Am, which was cutting into the line's Mediterranean tourist traffic. As American Export still has a 20% interest in American Overseas, it can wage a strong fight against the merger. American Export's Vice President John Slater has already resigned as chairman of American Overseas to clear his decks for action...