Word: bend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Jayne Mansfield, 24, show-off blonde cinemactress (Kiss Them for Me); and protein-packed, Hungarian-born Miklos ("Mickey") Hargitay, 29, otherwise "Mr. Universe of 1956"; both for the second time; in Portugese Bend (south of Los Angeles), Calif...
This week, working with no room to spare through their "hole in the ice," the orthopedists operated. They inserted wedges of bone (from a deep-frozen bone bank) between seven vertebrae, fixing this part of the spine so that it could not bend again. To allow time for the grafts to fuse solidly. Margie must spend at least six months in the rigid cast, though she can now enjoy the luxury of having her head free. Then there will be a "holding jacket," reaching only to the hips, for four months; most of that time Margie, though at home, will...
...slid smoothly from 1957 to 1958 without skipping a commercial; the turn of the year was just a turn in the bend of the season that began last fall. Still, it was a time for reappraisal, agonizing and otherwise. For a look at the TV season in midpassage, see TV & RADIO, Year of the Horse...
...horses: they are shooting so many westerns that Hollywood stables can hardly keep up with their bookings ($10 a day for an "extra" horse, $25 minimum for a beast with a role). This shift in concern was as telling a portent as any last week when television rounded the bend of its 1957-58 season. It is a season in which network advertisers are spending more than ever-about $660 million a year-to woo the largest audience yet-42 million TV homes-on the theory that, as one CBS bigwig frankly put it. "the best kind of entertainment...
...year he had led Notre Dame to its most disastrous season (2 won, 8 lost) since it started playing football in 1887. This season his team had begun by winning four straight, but in the last two weeks they had been beaten twice. For days the campus at South Bend had echoed with pep rallies; the underdog Irish knew that this was the one to win. All through three quarters the hopped-up Irish line hammered at Coach Bud Wilkinson's well-drilled Sooners. For all their consummate fakery, none of Oklahoma's quarterbacks could shake loose...