Word: ben
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BEN C. EISENBERG, M.D. Huntington Park, Calif...
When Hollywood partners part, they often do it with a bang. Author Ben Hecht and Cinemactor Bob Hope were partners in MGM's The Iron Petticoat, a Ninotchka-type farce co-starring Hope and Katharine Hepburn. The script by Hecht tells of a Russian aviatrix who flees the Soviet Union in a MIG and is piloted about Europe by a U.S. Air Force officer. Now that The Iron Petticoat is ready to be publicized, Scripter Hecht last week washed his hands of the whole project in a paid ad ($275) on the back page of the Hollywood Reporter...
...Israeli archaeologists near the border, killing four and wounding 17. The Israeli government had stiffly rejected the official Jordan explanation that a soldier had gone suddenly berserk and fired, and that afternoon the Israeli radio had announced an emergency meeting between Army Chief Moshe Dayan and Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion...
Capitol was one of the first to dress up record jackets with brightly colored photographs and prints. Columbia hired top artists (among them: Ben Shahn, Leo Lionni, Antonio Frasconi) to design its album covers. For the lower-browed mar ket, Decca tied in the sales campaign with popular magazines, last week spun out its Esquire series of albums decorated with long-stemmed Petty girls...
...return to reprisals grew in part out of Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion's conviction that the U.N. cannot enforce the cease-fire that U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold negotiated last April. Since that time, 29 Israelis have been killed and 49 wounded in border incidents. Last week's shootings brought the number of reported Jordanian dead to 31, and 27 Egyptians have also died...