Word: award
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bearing a "yellow streak." In the ensuing 1954 libel trial, Reynolds' lawyer, Louis Nizer, humiliated Pegler by reading him unidentified writings that Pegler dismissed as "the Communist line"-only to learn that they were his own prose from the 1930s. Reynolds won a $175,001 award, paid by Hearst...
...Adams won his third Emmy as Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series for his role as the bumbling spy in NBC's Get Smart. The show itself received an award for the Outstanding Comedy Series. The twist: NBC has dropped Get Smart horn next season's lineup. Yet another twist: CBS picked it up, and will continue it in the fall...
Divorced. Rod Steiger, 44, burly, Academy Award-winning master of a hundred faces (The Pawnbroker, In the Heat of the Night, No Way to Treat a Lady); by Claire Bloom, 37, the wistful ballerina in Charlie Chaplin's 1952 film Limelight, and veteran Shakespearean actress; on grounds of incompatibility; after nine years of marriage, one child; in Juarez, Mexico...
...rare award last week, a Parisian judge returned not only damages but the damaged property-a valuable piece of the plaintiff's anatomy-to a French girl named Claudine Perot. During filming of the movie Secret Paris in 1964, Claudine, who was then only 17, allowed a tattoo artist to decorate her buttock with a full-color rendering of the Eiffel Tower. Under the contract, the tattoo belonged to the moviemaker-Ulysee Productions-which probably wanted it for publicity purposes. Accordingly, Claudine had it removed by surgery and gave it to Ulysee. This year, older and a little wiser...
...joined Del Monte in San Francisco, was called up for a hitch as an Army officer, later entered Washington University's graduate business program for Negroes. At school he helped to start a small investment company, was in the top 10% of his class, and won the award for the best dissertation. Adams is aware that quite a few recruiters are going out of their way to woo Negroes, but he disdains sinecures. "I want to join a company that is going to get its investment out of me -not just fulfill its commitment to the Equal Opportunity...