Word: careers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...career approached its end, he confided that he had never quite been able to reconcile himself to one aspect of working in Manhattan. "New York's weather," he said, in a rare departure from his usual calm scientific detachment, "is lousy...
Throwing a Switch. From his first official act in 1921, when he pressed all 15 buzzers on his desk just to see what would happen (15 department heads streamed into his office), Holcombe's political career has never been dull. He lost four mayoralty campaigns, but was always voted back into office after Houston got a good taste of someone else...
...during a decade as "Hollywood's Bachelor Girl," been "linked" romantically in the gossip columns with many of the community's most prominent men, from Jimmy Stewart to Howard Hughes. She is suspected of being an "intellectual." She has a hardheaded, serious-minded approach to her career (she is probably Hollywood's only star who regularly reads the Wall Street Journal). Trying to add these things up remains a favorite game at Hollywood dinner parties...
...professional career started under the cold, sharp eye of the great Max Reinhardt. On the recommendation of a friend of a friend, Reinhardt hired her as understudy to the understudy of Hermia in his 1934 Hollywood Bowl production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. True to the old backstage plot tradition, the first-string Hermia got a movie offer, the second-stringer fell ill, and Olivia took the part. Movie Producer Henry Blanke, who dropped in on one of the rehearsals, noticed her. He thought she would be right for Hermia in the movie version of Dream which...
...through three courts, at a cost of $13,000 of her own money and a year and a half of her time, during which no studio would employ her. She won the case. For going to war against a major studio (had she lost, it might have ended her career), Olivia has remained something of a Hollywood Joan...