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been hopefully reported as the least enthusiastic of the rival group. Later, when the guests had sat down to dinner, Tomlinson and Meyer arrived. Vogel's friends breathed a little easier. After dinner all the guests were taken to a preview of the new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical, High Society.
However, the mood was far from sociable when the directors gathered the next morning in the big executive conference room of the Irving G. Thalberg Building at the studio. After some preliminary sparring Vogel asked MacBride to give his report, and the latter went into a lengthy examination of the management picture in the areas of finance, publicity, and sales.
Eventually, Johnson, in seeming impatience and with more than an intuitive sense of what to expect, asked MacBride if he had a report on the president. "I think in fairness to him and to the board, we should know that, if you have a conclusion," he said.
MacBride paused for a moment, cleared his throat, and said, "Our opinions on the president are that we have regretfully come to the conclusion that, because of the atmosphere, because of the questions raised by the president's failure to do some things which in our judgment he should have done, that a change should be considered by this board."
The answer dumbfounded Vogel. He expected trouble, yes, but he was not prepared for such a shattering recommendation. For several minutes he sat silent, stunned, while Johnson and K.T. Keller continued to question MacBride on the reasons for his recommendation. They seemed to be preparing a case. Soon a recess was taken, and the directors began caucusing.
During this recess Vogel received another sharp surprise. It was that Tex McCrary was in the building, waiting to release to the press word of results of the meeting. It was evident it had been assumed that important news would be forthcoming. On the previous day McCrary had alerted news