Word: cecile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spend more money on education and welfare. British Columbians have little of the Easterners' attachment to the major national parties. The province has not had a Liberal or Tory government for 17 years. It perks along with a public works-minded Social Credit movement, whose Premier William Andrew Cecil Bennett takes pains to assure potential investors that their dollars are coming to the right place...
Gigi. Colette's slender novelette larded up with production values and brought forth as a big fat musical; but the show is saved by Cecil Beaton's fruitily fin de siecle sets and costumes-a cinemuseum of exquisite eyesores (TIME...
...Feel Good." The new Lions International president elected this week: Dry Goods Retailer Dudley L. Simms, 49, of Charleston, W. Va., who is also an active Mason, Shriner and Elk. West Virginia's Governor Cecil H. Underwood came up to watch the inauguration. Simms now starts twelve months of world travel, much of it north and south of the borders. For the first time ever, West European Lions were thick enough to get a man on the vice-presidency ladder: Per Stahl, 42. knifemaker from Eskilstuna, Sweden, who will, in the normal order of Lion growth, become president...
...Guild, only four months old, is the creation of 49-year-old Trumpeter Cecil F. Read. In 1956 Read led a revolt of Hollywood's Local 47, A.F.M. He protested the handling of the Music Performance Trust Funds, which collect phonograph-record and TV movie music royalties to use for unemployment benefits for the entire A.F.M. membership. Read complained that although performances by the 15,000 Hollywood musicians provide the Trust Funds with more than 50% of their revenues, only 4% of the revenues ever gets back to Local 47. Expelled from the A.F.M.. Trumpeter Read recruited musicians...
Gigi. Colette's slender novelette brought forth as a big fat musical; but the show is saved by Cecil Beaton's fin de siecle sets and costumes (TIME...