Movie Mogul Louis B. Mayer Dead
At 72 After Month of Illness
HOLLYWOOD, MV-Louis B.
Mayer, the motion picture giant
who - won box office supremacy
with a torrent of talent and a tug
at the heartstrings, died yesterday
of severe anemia brought an by
acute leukemia. He was 72 years
old.
Mayer, one of the architects of
Metro-Golldwyn-Mayer, had been
undergoing treatment at the
UCLA medical center for over a
month.
Talked of Comeback
Mayer retired as head of MGM
in 1951, but talked only a few
months ago of trying to regain his
position with the big studio. He
said he would like to go back if
the “right group” got control of
MGM again. This group lost con
trol in 1951 and Mayer was re
placed then by Dore Schary.
Mayer and Schary had feuded
considerably before their parting.
One of Mayer’s picture-making
credos was that every movie
should have “heart”—a term that
might roughly be translated to
mean sentiment.
"Heart" Was "Com"
Some of his critics said the
thing Mayer called “heart” was
“com.”
It was on this point that Mayer
and Schary collided during the
making of “The Red Badge of
Courage.” Mayer didn’t like it.
Schary did. It turned out to be an
artistic success, but a boxoffice
flop.
Two Civil Wars
Gottfried Reinhardt, co-produc
er of the film, once said he “had
to fight two civil wars—the one
in the script and the one between
Schary and Mayer.”
Mayer was born in Minsk, Rus
sia, July 4, 1885. His family
moved to St. John, New Bruns
wick, when he was only three
months old. There he began his
business career—helping his fath
er in a ship salvage operation—
after a brief public school educa
tion.
Two-Pound Fish
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Survives 17 Hours
Out of Water
PONTELAND, England, UP)—A
two-pound fish which survived a
270-mile automobile trip and 17
hours out of water was rewarded
with its liberty yesterday.
George Clay, an engineer, caught
the fish, a tench, on a weekend
fishing trip in Worcestershire.
The angler wrapped his catch
in a dry newspaper, put it in the
trunk of his car, drove home and
left it overnight in his -garage.
Clay retrieved the fish Monday,
slapped it on the kitchen table
and said to his wife, “Let’s have
him fried.”
As Mrs. Clay poised her knife
the tench wriggled. Later he
swam briskly around the bathtub.
Clay turned the fish loose in a
nearby lake.
(Webster defines the tench as a
European fresh-water fish of the
carp family . . . noted for its
tenacity of life.)
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Richardson and
Lucie Fagerstrom
Wed Last Night
In a pretty setting of red roses
and candlelight, Sgt. Frank Rich
ardson and Lucie Ann Fagerstrom
were married last night at the
Community Methodist Church.
Outside, a beautiful moon was
reflected on Bering Sea while the
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.Vi the northern sky.
The bride is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fagerstrom.
The groom is well known here,
having been stationed here with
the military and giving generous
ly of his time with music on the
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The couple will make their
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Atom Smasher Inventor
Dr. Ernest Lawrence Wins
$50,000 Fermi Award
WASHINGTON, Dr. Ernest
O. Lawrence, inventor of the cy
clotron “atom smasher,” Tuesday
was named winner of the Atomic
Energy Commission’s $5'0,000 Fer
mi Award for 1957.
The noted scientist and director
of the University of California ra
diation laboratory at Berkley was
cited not only for the cyclotron
development but “for his many
other contributions in nuclear
physics and atomic energy.”
j The award was established un
der authority df the Atomic En
ergy Act of 1954 “for especially
meritorious contributions to the
development, use or control of
atomic energy’.”
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