Word: busiest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rapidly becoming Hollywood's busiest mother (she expects a fourth child in October), Singer Rosemary Clooney, wife of Actor-Director Jose Ferrer, posed happily at home with her three little obbligatos: Miguel, 3, Maria, 1 year 9 months, and Gabriel, 9 months...
...Russian bear and the Wall Street bear behave, and if Abdullah Doe in the Middle East can keep his fez on, 1958 will be the dizziest, busiest merry-go-round in European travel history." Nearly 700,000 voyaging Americans are about to make this breezy prophecy come true. An impressive number of these U.S. tourists will carry a stowaway-Temple Hornaday Fielding. He conies handily packaged in a fact-and opinion-crammed, hard-cover container called Fielding's Travel Guide to Europe, 1958-59 (895 pp.; Sloane; $4.95). Annually revised since its '48 debut, Fielding's Guide...
...will fade out for the last time. Likeliest replacement: a soap opera or two. Already dreaming up ten new projects for NBC, Producer Albert McCleery, 46, was ready with an epitaph: "I've been very lucky. I've been running what amounts to a national theater, the busiest one anywhere...
Daiichi Seiyaku (meaning No. 1 drug company) ran half-page ads showing men and women with agonized faces, clutching swollen heads and moaning for Atraxin. Daiichi and competitors put up billboards at Tokyo's busiest intersections, where stalled motorists and scared-running pedestrians were urged to help themselves to "cope" by taking a pill. There was even a suggestion (eventually dropped) that similar ads be placed at railroad crossings, bridges and volcano craters, the meccas of the suicide-minded. (Several attempts to commit suicide with overdoses of tranquilizers have failed.) Tranki pills have proved especially popular with students cramming...
...managing editor of the Ithaca News before he bought a half share of the ailing Elmira Gazette in 1906 (for $20,000), later merged it with the rival Evening Star. Gannett started looking for other money-losing dailies to buy and merge-and soon won fame as the busiest newspaper hyphenator in upstate New York. From Rochester, where he merged the Union & Advertiser with the Times, he went on to combine Utica's Herald-Dispatch and Observer, Elmira's Telegram and Advertiser, Ithaca's News and Journal. He fought Hearst in Rochester (where W.R.H. spent...