Word: box
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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True to tradition, Heathcoat (pronounced heth-cut) Amory held aloft Gladstone's frayed red dispatch box as he strode in to members' cheers last week. But as he plunged into his businesslike speech, pausing only at a reference to milk processing to refresh himself with a glass of milk thinly laced with rum and honey,* the House soon realized that the self-effacing Chancellor had produced an even more self-effacing budget. He had decided that Britain was not going to get caught in the American recession, but should not risk trying to expand its economy just...
...scrape when she was ten; her mother struggled to keep her alive. In Hollywood one day, when she was a well-stacked 16, she was "discovered" as she sat at a drugstore fountain. Hollywood gave her the big buildup. Renamed Lana, she made movies with the biggest of the box-office giants-Gable, Taylor, Cooper-and nobody, least of all the customers, cared if she was not a second Sarah Bernhardt...
...Johnny was dead. Lana was still alive; a judge would decide soon whether she would lose custody of her only child. Julia Jean Turner had come a long way in the make-believe wonderland of Hollywood-where moviemen are confident that the Sweater Girl is now bigger box office than ever...
...home, he passed a theater. Lightheaded and confused, he found himself asking for a tryout-at the box office. The stage manager happened to be there, and ten minutes later he had three parts: Chinese coolie, French pirate, British sailor. Salary: ?2 a week. "But isn't the Equity minimum ?3?" Alec shyly inquired. "None of that talk around here," the manager snarled. Alec said no more, but next day he quietly called Equity and got his ?3. He was worth every penny. He threw himself passionately into the role of the coolie, even shaved...
...town's elite was on its ear. To hear him in the finals, standees jammed the aisles in the Moscow Conservatory's deep balconies. Soldiers held back enthusiastic crowds in the street outside. To the hundreds of callers who asked for tickets, the Conservatory's box office had a standard reply: "Cliburn is playing tonight; call back tomorrow...