Word: amber
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Celtic queen (or princess, or priestess or high courtesan) must have been a gorgeous sight as she lay in death in her chariot. Around her neck was a collar of tubular bronze. On her breast were brooches and necklaces set with amber and stones. She wore bracelets of amber and anklets of hollow bronze...
Divorced. By Kathleen (Forever Amber) Winsor, 34, brunette bestselling authoress: her third husband, Attorney Arnold Krakower, 37; after four years of marriage, no children; in Juarez, Mexico...
Novelist Kathleen Winsor, 34, helpfully analyzed her marital career for a Hearst reporter in Manhattan. Of husband No. 1, Robert John Herwig, a football coach, she said: "While Bob was overseas, Forever Amber was published . . . During the next year I received $1,000,000 in royalties ... It is to his credit that he was unable to adjust himself comfortably to his wife suddenly making $1,000,000." Husband No. 2, Bandleader Artie Shaw, was "an unhappy mistake from the very beginning ... I was working on Star Money, my second book, and Artie was working on a book...
Director Otto (Forever Amber) Preminger was barking commands. He started each scene with "Los!" and ended them abruptly with "Noch einmal"-or less frequently, "Sehr...
...contrast to the yearly hue and cry of previous times, only three cases have been publicly tried since the law went into effect. In the case of Forever Amber, the courts decided in 1948 it was hardly obscene, but rather "sporific." It was sold. In 1950 James M. Cains Serenade and Erskine Caldwell's God's Little Acre were tried. Judging the books as total works of art, the courts decided the former was not obscene, but the latter was, and should not be sold...