Word: careering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Strangler") Lewis was caught in a metaphysical headlock. The 59-year-old wrestling champ of the '20s and early '30s, down 50 pounds to a lean, keen 275, was roaring simultaneously through his resuscitated mat career (his $10 million earnings had all gone, somehow) and a series of lectures on "the constructive way of living." To the Santa Barbara (Calif.) Lions Club Strangler revealed: "Mental hygiene is the coming thing. . . . We can't reach a peaceful world if we instill the will to fight in our youngsters." But then, "by overcoming one obstacle, one gains strength...
Movie-Mad. Nevertheless, in 1922, Hedda divorced DeWolf, who objected to her movie career and resented her equal earning power ($1,000 a week). For Hedda was there when the flickers were born. She knew Hollywood in 1915, when it was a village near Los Angeles. She knew Sam Goldwyn when his name was Goldfish, and played in several of his pictures in the Biograph studio on New Jersey's Palisades...
Fustest with the Mostest. Hedda spent most of the rest of her movie career in Hollywood, working for Louis B. Mayer. She was the screen's first best-dressed woman, and for years its official sophisticated society dame. In those years, without even trying, she salted down an incredible knowledge of Hollywood's strange ways & means. She can tell off-the-record stories that make Suetonius look like a cub from the Christian Science Monitor. She even knew what the inside of Garbo's dressing room looked like ("the black hole of Calcutta"). Studio publicity men, hard...
...made his home in Plymouth since his retirement as master of classical languages at Cambridge Latin School in 1905. Before that he was principal of the Plymouth High School. Since his retirement he has made a second career for himself as a geneologist and historian...
Five businessmen last week were designated the most notable Horatio Alger heroes in the U.S. This distinction-with a scroll-was conferred upon them by the American Schools and Colleges Association, which polled 800 U.S. educational institutions to determine which businessmen "best symbolize the traditional Horatio Alger career." Actually, only two of the winners had come up from rags to riches. They were General Electric's Charles E. Wilson, onetime $4-a-week shipping clerk, and I. J. Fox, who ran one fur coat into the largest U.S. fur chain. The rags of the other Alger boys had been...