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Newspaper

Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Dec 27, 1950

Page

10

Kubrick’s Bold Plan to Make a Movie for 50 000

Stanley Kubrick, then 22, lives in a Greenwich Village apartment and aims to make a full length film for 50 000 dollars. He will shoot outdoors with four principal actors, 10 extras, and minimal staff, renting all equipment and relying on careful planning to avoid sets and extensive crew.

Bae In Pett Hal Boyle New York Stanley Kubrick Greenwich Village Kubrick Bronx Howard O. Sackler California Sam Goldwyn

Navy shifts on reservists and movie plans without timing

The article notes a proposed plan to release recalled reservists at 5000 a month and reserve officers at 1500 a month starting next July, but a Navy spokesman later said the plan is abandoned and not timing or numbers. It lists Army priorities for officer calls from National Guard and ROTC groups and volunteer service.

Navy Naval Reserve Army National Guard Organized Reserve ROTC

Army to Call Up 7500 Junior Officers in March

The Army will order 7500 individual junior officers from National Guard and organized reserve units to active duty in March. It also plans to activate 100 Women’s Army Corps lieutenants and captains, plus 890 medical officers 850 dental officers and 415 medical service corps officers, to report Feb 5 and Mar 15. The Navy plans reservist releases next summer.

Washington Army National Guard Navy Medical Service

French Nitrogen Team Visits TVA Labs in Muscle Shoals

A French nitrogen fertilizer productivity team visits the United States for six weeks studying nitrogenous fertilizer and coke by products industries. They spent four days at TVA laboratories and plants in Muscle Shoals in November. The group includes 17 experts from all sectors of the French nitrogen industry, three interpreters, and a representative of the Economic Cooperation Administration.

United States TVA Muscle Shoals Economic Cooperation Administration

AAAS 1950 Meeting Opens With 2000 Reports

The 117th AAAS annual meeting in Cleveland gathers about 50 000 scientists from 218 societies. Some 2000 reports span nearly all science fields with 154 exhibits. Sessions run through December 30 after a Christmas-week start to fit faculty and government scientists’ schedules.

Alton L. Blakeslee Associated Press Cleveland American Association For the Advancement of Science AAAS Association

Legion Collection Of Tide Of Toys Begun Over Country

The American Legion begins a tide of toys drive to aid Europe’s needy children. Last year Legion posts distributed about 3,000,000 playthings. They seek sturdy toys fit for a long sea voyage and exclude electrically powered toys and war toys.

Legion Washington American Legion Europe

Musial Ties Cobb With Five Hits In A Game

In 1948 Stan Musial achieved five hits in a single game four times, matching Ty Cobb's major league record for most five hit games in a season.

Stan Musial Ty Cobb

Tennessee River Traffic In New Monthly Record

Traffic on the Tennessee river last month totaled 103 300 tons and 36 480 000 ton miles marking a new monthly record and hinting at a 1950 ton mileage record. End of eleven months tonnage excluding specific local traffic stood at 1 142 000, about 2 percent above 1949. Ten mile mileage reached 415 850 000, slightly above last year. Automobiles grain iron and steel products and sulphur led new commodity records by November.

Tennessee Paducah

Power Generation Up For November

The TVA reports total gross electric power generation in November at 1.62 billion kWh, up 2.1 percent from October.

TVA

1950 Hollywood Year in Review Highlights and Lows

Hollywood’s 1950 saw Bergman Garland and Sinatra in headlines and television unsettling the film industry. Highlights include All About Eve Sunset Boulevard and The Asphalt Jungle as top pictures. Betty Davis and Holden among best performances. Stromboli a major flop. worst idea a sequel. oddities include Crosby fined in Paris.

Bob Thomas Hollywood Ingrid Bergman Senator Johnson Judy Garland Ava Gardner Frank Sinatra Cupid Betty Hutton Elizabeth Taylor Bette Davis Myrna Loy Barbara Stanwyck Robert Taylor Marie Wilson Linda Darnell Kathryn Grayson Dan Dailey Groucho Marx Sunset Boulevard King Solomon's Mines Stromboli Bing Crosby Paris Park Grass Gloria Swanson Judy Holliday Anne Baxter Josephine Hull Harvey Jose Ferrer William Holden Louis Calhern

Film Awards and Notes Include Elizabeth Taylor Wedding

Mrs. Miniver wins praise with Father of the Bride shining. Judy Holliday and Jeff Chandler highlighted as rising stars. Broken Arrow is named best western while Jolson Huston Hale losses are listed. 20th Century Fox praised for consistency and Sunset Boulevard praised for publicity. Elizabeth Taylor Nick Hilton wedding marks social event. their split is a letdown. A note adds that cast iron began in England around 1350, with earlier production elsewhere.

Mrs. Miniver Judy Holliday Jeff Chandler Elizabeth Taylor Nick Hilton

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