Word: careers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although news correspondents don't generally enter their trade in search of the quiet life, Boston-born Carl Mydans has had a more than spectacular career since he came with TIME, Inc. in 1936, as a LIFE photographer. One of his early jobs was a story on New York City's Queens-Midtown tunnel, where he worked with the .sandhogs below the bed of the East River, got the bends, was revived, went back for more. He covered the Russo-Finnish war in 1940, covered the retreat of the French government from Paris to Bordeaux, then...
...last marriage, in 1945, to a balding, amiable theatrical producer named W. Horace Schmidlapp, had long since disintegrated. So had her career. She was still working in B pictures, but she had lost her appeal at the box office. Her health was not good-she suffered from amoebic dysentery contracted overseas. There were rumors that she was broke...
Less ambitious, but even more to the Parisian taste, were the exploits of 23-year-old "Pierrot le Fou" (Crazy Pete), who made his seventh jailbreak in three years. Wavy-haired Pierrot (real name: Pierre Carrot) began his career as an escape artist at the age of 20, when he pretended to hang himself in his cell and knocked out the jailer who rushed to cut him down. Recaptured some months later, Pierrot sawed his way into the cell of a condemned murderer. Then Pierrot used an iron bar to dispose of the guards who came to escort the murderer...
Early in his Hollywood career, the town gossips began dividing Hughes's women friends into two classes: 1) the established celebrities-Billy Dove, Lana Turner, Linda Darnell, Bette Davis, Gloria Baker, Ruth Moffett, et al.-with whom he was seen in public; and 2) the young, eager and not too prudish unknowns with whom he was almost never seen in public. Hughes has a harsh word for the latter: he calls them "crows." But even from them he fears a rebuff. It is part of Meyer's job to see that the green light is up before Hughes...
Then he spent a brief, unhappy term working for Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express-a career terminated by a typically Waughlike misunderstanding. One day Editor Beverley Baxter saw Evelyn lolling in a chair in the reporters' room, and asked him his name. "Waw," was the answer that reached Baxter's ears, and, thinking that the young man was making a rude noise, the editor fired...