Word: breakup
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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 release that the breakup was the result of "conflicting demands of their careers." Then the staff deployed to their phones, notified four Los Angeles dailies, the wire services and such top columnists as Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons, so that each would be the "first" to know. In only seven minutes, Hollywood...
...breakup of Your Show of Shows caused a major displacement of the venerable Voice of Firestone, whose semiclas-sical music has been heard for 25 years over NBC radio and for five years over NBC-TV on the same day and time (Mon. 8:30 p.m.). NBC pre-empted the Firestone time period for its forthcoming Sid Caesar show and was hopeful that Firestone would drop the Voice and sponsor Caesar. Instead, Firestone stubbornly insisted on staying with its old format of orchestra and opera singers, whose opening theme ( If I Could Tell You) and closing theme (In My Garden...
Unlike other disputed land, such as the Saar, the Adriatic port city is of little economic value. Once, before the first World War, it serviced the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and it prospered. Since the breakup of the Empire, the trade going through the port has dwindled; nevertheless, Trieste retains vast political and military significance...
Twice after their breakup, she suspected Ugo of plotting to kill her. Worried, she went to Rome's district attorney, Dr. Angelo Sigurani. She told him all she knew. She told him that she suspected Ugo Montagna of running a narcotics ring, of his frequent trips to visit the commanders of such ports as Genoa and Naples. Said La Caglio: "Sigurani listened very carefully, patted me on the shoulder and advised me to keep out of these things, and the sooner the better." Two weeks ago Dr. Sigurani tried to get the case dropped because investigation showed "the complete...
...With the breakup of the Berlin Conference and renewed proof of Russia's implacable hold on East Germany, the focus of uncertainty in Europe shifted back to Paris-and to the familiar, nagging question: What will the French do about EDC, the European army project? Before leaving Berlin, Foreign Minister Georges Bidault told Secretary Dulles that he hoped to see the legislative gears turning by mid-March and that he hoped for ratification of EDC by mid-April. Not many in France were so optimistic...