Movie business keeps brisk pace in Madrid studios
AP film notes from Madrid report a strong Spanish production boom driven by American money. Twentieth Century Fox filmed Deadfall here and in Majorca while Magus moves from Greece to Spain. Cinerama plans East of Java with a $6 million budget. Palance Sommer Cobb wrap Bad Area of the West as Coburn and Avec Avec begin. Darling Lily and Villa Rides headlined by Brynner Mitchum to shoot this month through December. observer notes Spain lacks international stars or broad influence beyond its language market.
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Bob Thomas
Madrid
Hollywood
Twentieth Century
Fox
Michael: Caine
Majorca
Magus
Greece
Spain
Cinerama
Java
Samuel Bronston
Jack Palance
Ellie Sommer
Lee J. Cobb
James Coburn
Darling Lily
Sule Andrews
Blake
Edwards
Villa
Yuli Brynner
Robert Mitchum
Slow faculty integration in Alabama schools described
In Lowndes and Dallas counties race based transfer resistance hampers desegregation efforts. White teachers have resigned in most Lowndes schools except Fort Deposit, leaving likely all Negro faculty and students. Selma shows more white volunteers, but overall boards fear coercive transfers. Professors cite hostile atmosphere and reprisals as factors guiding choices.
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Rex Thomas Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Lowndes
Selma
Dallas County
Joe Reed
Negro Alabamie State Teachers Association
Fort Deposit
Hulda Colemani
Joseph A. Pickard
T Selma
AMA Discount Store Bankrupt in Chapter 11 Filing
Federal bankruptcy referee Elmore Whitehurst set September 19 as a tentative hearing date for creditors of the bankrupt Associated Merchants of America Inc. AMA filed a voluntary petition under Chapter 11 after a board meeting on August 8. Assets are listed at 1.23 million with 1.1875 million in bonds, with stores in Tucson Las Vegas Reno Beaumont Wichita Falls and Longview.
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Dallas
Elmore Whitehurst
Associated Merchants of America, Inc
AMA
Texas
Arizona
Nevada
AMA Super Stores
Texam Enterprises Inc
Tucson
Ariz
Las Vegas
Reno
Nev
Beaumont Wichita Falls
Longview
Poor Language Hastened Bomb Decision
AP reports that Truman sped up the atomic strike after Japan’s Potsdam reply was misread as mokusatsu meaning silent contempt. Suzuki intended no comment. The Saturday Evening Post notes a failed coup by army officers to block surrender after Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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New York
Harry S. Truman
Japan
Potsdam
Truman
Kantaro Suzuki
William Craig
Saturday Evening Post
Suzuki
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Never Lost A Day Sick In His 92 Years
Walt Mills of Greensboro 92 today and has never been ill or missed a day of work. He spent his birthday underground, saying his only medicine is no doctors, no smoking, and no chewing. He laid cables for Southern Bell until 65 and then worked 27 years as a telephone line contractor. He lives with his wife in a self built home and remains active.
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Greensboro
N.C
Walt Mills
Mills
Southern Bell Telephone Co
U S Should Get Into Russian Film Festival
Former adviser Jack Valenti, president of the MPAA, urges the United States to ensure first rate U S participation in Moscow Film Festivals with full financial support in a report to Secretary of State Dean Rusk.
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New York
Jack Valenti
Johnson
Motion Picture Association of America
U.S
Vaienti
Dean Rusk
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