Word: box
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when he boarded an airliner at San Francisco to return to New York for a ten-day hospital stay (prostate operation), Harriman had turned a slow start into a fast finish, capped by an announcement from Oklahoma that the state's 28 votes were his. The firm Harriman box score...
Arsenic Pudding. Last month in London a delegation of Singaporeans, including both Marshall and Lee, presented British Colonial Secretary Lennox-Boyd (see box) with a demand for full control of Singapore's internal affairs. When the British showed no disposition to turn over Singapore's police to the local government, Marshall slapped down a draft bill for Singapore's full independence, with the last word on internal security resting with the Singaporeans. Said he: "I am resigning immediately unless I get my proposals accepted...
...sizzling swing concert in Britain 23 years ago, Trumpeter Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong recalls, he interrupted himself to roll his eyes toward a royal box and rasp: "This one's for you. Rex!" Rex, better known as King George V, was jolted but amused, despite the protocol that bars entertainers from referring to royalty in the audience-let alone addressing them directly. Last week, cavalier as ever about protocol, Satchmo did it again. Beaming at a $3.50 orchestra seat in London's cavernous Empress Hall, Armstrong growled: "Now we are going to jump one for one of our special...
...page agreement, thus ending a rags-to-riches cycle fabulous even for Hollywood. They had parlayed $150 worth of projection equipment into $68 million worth of assets and $4,000,000 in earnings (in 1955), pioneered the talkies with The Jazz Singer, and last year topped the list of box-office moneymakers with six of the first 15 hits. Now, in return for $22 million, or $27.50 a share ($3.10 above market value), the brothers handed over 800,000 shares, 33% of the outstanding common stock of the company. They still keep 10% of Warners and remain on the board...
...chase sequence as Jimmy and Doris charge off to London to track down the kidnapers: there is a melee in a taxidermist's shop, an encounter with the villains in a Non conformist chapel, a hand-to-hand struggle with the gun-wielding assassin in a velvet-curtained box at Albert Hall, a final showdown in the gilt-and-mirror splendor of a foreign embassy. Hitchcock alternates his chills with comedy, as when Jimmy is bitten by a stuffed tiger, and gets deft performances from both Stewart and Doris Day. But the pace grows laggard toward the end. Instead...