Word: career
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From this side of the Atlantic, America appears as an overendowed, immature young nation ruled by a power elite of career politicians, military top brass, monopoly capitalists and tycoon gangsters-and, as such, is every bit as dangerous as the U.S.S.R...
Mitzie Epstein was just 19 when she quit fashion-design school in 1924, gave up her chance for a career and married Samuel Irving Newhouse, the hustling, 28-year-old publisher of the Staten Island (N.Y.) daily Advance. Last month, when Sam Newhouse went looking for the proper gift for their 35th wedding anniversary, he had a good basis to go on-Mitzie, a delicate wisp of a woman (5 ft., 76 Ibs.) who likes to wear originals by Dior and Givenchy, still has a high interest in high fashion. Last week Sam came home with just the right present...
...money to be able to support himself while he writes. Merton College Tutor Hugo Dyson is not worried that Kris will abandon literature for the larynx, calls Kris "one of the most favorable specimens of Rhodes scholarship" and "the kind of man you can trust to pick his own career." Stable Owner Lincoln finds his deep-thinking discovery "rather frightening." In case plans go sour, he has figured out an alternate road to fame. "If this doesn't work out," he told the well-muscled singer-scholar last week, "I can always launch you in wrestling...
...lobbyist for Aluminum Co. of America; when Lenore got an offer from Hollywood (she was a bit player), he convinced Alcoa that he would be more valuable in their West Coast office. "I kept thinking," he says, "that some movie hero would get her." Lenore thought she wanted a career, but George's persistence was overpowering. Just as M-G-M offered her a three-year contract, he persuaded her to marry him instead, took her back to Washington as his wife. Says Romney: "It was my greatest selling achievement...
...latest thing at Sears, Roebuck is hair mail. Out from Sears in discreetly unmarked white envelopes all this month went 30,000 catalogues devoted wholly to its new line of men's "career-winning toupees." They ranged from the close-cropped Ivy League crew cut to the long-haired Hollywood model. Balding buyers measure their crowns with a tape sent by Sears, outline their open spaces on paper, pay $109.95 to $224.95 for a toupee-20% down, the rest in six installments. With proper care, which means alternating it with a second wig and sending it back to Sears...