Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trouble than the Methodist Church." In the longest-distance phone call in cinema history, he gets hold of Operative Lola (Gwen Verdon), still infernally seductive at the age of 172. Lola does not get what she wants, but the Senators do win the pennant and Hunter is mercifully transformed back into Robert Shafer...
...economic advantages of Dracones are their cheapness (about $5,600 for the 100-ft. job) and the fact that they can be pumped dry at the end of a voyage, rolled up, and shipped back to a source of oil as cargo of a small towing vessel...
Harry Golden, social critic, humorist, essayist and author of the leading nonfiction bestseller Only in America (World; $4). tactfully withdrew from the scheduled CBS-TV program on integration that brought him to Manhattan, and confessed that he was indeed an ex-convict. That done, Golden flew back to Charlotte, N.C. to pace his house with a cigar in one hand and a glass of beer in the other, and wonder what would happen when his friends and readers learned that he had served three years and eight months for mail fraud in the early...
Staring carefully at her face in the mirror, smoothing the glossy black hair and shading the lids above expressive grey-green eyes, the coolly beautiful woman saw that she was still as the world once knew her. Last week Cinemactress Gene Tierney was back in a Hollywood dressing room-back from a mental institution. Was that foreboding phrase a shame to hide? Not a bit. To ex-Patient Tierney, 37, Topeka's famed Menninger Clinic was an exultant experience...
...greatest depository of religious and secular manuscripts and manuscript art is the Vatican Library in Rome; its archives of some 566,000 books and documents, dating from as far back as 2,000 B.C., form an irreplaceable record. But if the library were destroyed, the substance and art of its contents would not be lost. Eight years ago the Jesuit fathers of Missouri's Roman Catholic St. Louis University got permission to microfilm some 30,000 key Vatican Library manuscripts. Backed financially by the Knights of Columbus, they have now recorded a staggering 11 million pages from such works...