Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...month later, Ethel had her answer. Her rich, throaty contralto rolled over her fears, and Jinks became a hit. Long lines of ticket buyers curled across Herald Square from the box office of the Garrick Theater on Manhattan's 35th Street. Her name went up in lights on the marquee, and for more than half a century the glow remained. Styles changed: Broadway brightened (and cheapened) from gaslight into the Great White Way, and moved north to Times Square; nickelodeons grew into movie houses; the talkies came, driving the "legit" theater into retreat, and the ghostly black-and-white...
...Japan herself; when she took time out to have a baby, she named her Stephanie Sachiko, to demonstrate that she shared Steve's love for the Orient. The baby slowed her down not a bit. She made Hot Spell, a good picture but not much of a box-office splash, showed up on the Sheepman set "somewhat trepidatious" for her first western. She was togged in immaculate jeans, spotless cowgirl hat, shiny boots. "I was the only gal in the picture," she says. "Director George Marshall threw a couple of fistfuls of dirt all over my new clothes...
Fast Franks. A cigar-box-shaped appliance that cooks six frankfurters in 90 seconds is being sold by Westinghouse. The first home appliance designed just for the hot dog, the plastic "Dog-O-Matic" has two rows of pronglike electrodes between which the hot dogs are impaled, cooked as electricity shoots through them. Price...
...Frozen Box. A one-piece package for frozen foods has been developed by Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. Replacing the cumbersome double package (wax covering over cardboard) now used to avoid odor mixture and freezer burn, the new package does both jobs with a single wax cardboard, which can be sealed with a cold adhesive...
Some Like It Hot. The nation's No. 1 box-office attraction has Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis dressed as females and Marilyn Monroe half-dressed as herself...