Word: branded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shock waves, in Hollywood fashion, were set in motion by the press boss of 20th Century-Fox, Marilyn's studio. Fast-talking Harry Brand, an ex-newsman with a reputation as one of the smartest press-agents in Hollywood, had carefully prepared for the event. At the time of the marriage he had foresightedly extracted a promise from Marilyn that, if the marriage broke up, she would tell him first. Last week, when she phoned and sobbed out the news. Brand was ready. Quickly, he mobilized his troops. He called in five assistants while he dashed off a short...
...American. Guessing that she had headed for the studio, reporters made straight for Pressagent Brand's office to wait for the next bulletin. Brand had his script ready. "We're all sorry at the studio that it happened," he began. "It was a wonderful kind of legend, Joe and Marilyn. Everybody loves 'em both. Everybody thinks it's Romeo and Juliet. It's the All-American Boy divorcing the All-American Girl." Asked a hard-bitten Hollywood reporter: "But who gets custody of the Wheaties...
...Maritime Board has also worked out a whole series of satellite programs to improve the existing fleet and attract capital for brand-new ships. Congress has appropriated $12 million for an emergency repair program to modernize 54 mothballed ships from the reserve fleet, has appropriated another $11 million for a "Liberty Conversion Plan" to experiment with ways of modernizing the entire fleet of 1,500 wartime Liberty ships laid up in port...
...beautiful Greenwich Village mistress, the ex-sergeant who plays the horses and the fillies, the gentleman farmer whose wife is unfaithful (he encourages it), the smalltown publisher whose wife is also unfaithful (he would deplore it), and Homer Aswell, who believes he is dead. Miller relentlessly records everything-the brand of cigarettes they smoke, the way they like their Martinis, the jobs they had, the girls they missed, how their houses are furnished, how they take a bath. This may not really add up to a novel, but readers will have some fun "recognizing" themselves or their friends in some...
...solution to such a problem is difficult. In the Federal Courts, where Lattimore will be tried, an ordinary case may take several years to find its way onto the docket. But in these times, for a man to go several years under the label of Red is enough to brand him for life. In extraordinary cases, however, a speed-up in the courts is possible. The Administration is currently making campaign capital of its efforts to ferret out communism. Some of this efficiency should be used to bring the accused to a quick trial...