Word: agente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...claiming that his organization would handle "about nine-tenths of the campaign work." Finnegan's role, said Butler, would be simply that of "personal aide to Governor Stevenson in handling the traveling activities." Jim Finnegan held his peace, although he had no intention of becoming a mere travel agent. He will, when and if jurisdictional responsibilities are ironed out, boss Adlai Stevenson's 1956 campaign and go right ahead with Operation Coattails, reverse or otherwise...
...Count Foucou was something special. He arrived in his bright new British Aston-Martin sports car with a squeal of tires and a flourish of gravel, flanked by a pretty blonde wife and a secretary. He wanted to buy a chateau, he said, and the dazzled real-estate agent showed him the historic Chateau de Theillat. The count took one look, declared he would take it, and with an aristocratic flourish wrote out two checks on the spot, one for 35 million francs ($100,000) and another for 25 million...
...line of attack which the Democrats mean to push hardest is that the Old Guard of the Republican Party took over in San Francisco to insure that Richard M. Nixon again would be Vice President and their skillful agent at the center of government in the four years to come...
Newly arrived in Hollywood, Britain's blonde, shapely (37-23-35) Diana Dors, threw a wingding for 250 film celebrities at her rented $175,000 estate, made a big splash when she landed, fully clothed in her swimming pool with her husband, agent and designer tumbling in after her. Diana's husband climbed onto dry land first, a baleful look in his eye as he fixed United Press Photographer Stewart Sawyer, 32, bellowing that the lensman had pushed the quartet in so that a fellow photographer could get the picture. Her skintight toreador pants and diaphanous shirt pasted...
...Independents. Short, round-faced ex-dancer (with Martha Graham), ex-Hollywood Agent Harold Adolph Hecht, 49, who runs the business end of the partnership and shares authority with Lancaster, is convinced that this is the era of independent producers. Small production outfits are multiplying, and such major studio chiefs as Darryl Zanuck and Jerry Wald have recently quit their jobs to form independent companies...