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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pain & Paralysis. This beglamoured life ended dramatically on June 8, 1956. With Norwegian Ambassador Rolf Andvord and her good friends Domenica Walter, Jean Lacaze and Dr. Maurice Lacour, Maggie attended a gala opera performance in honor of visiting King Paul and Queen Frederika of Greece. Her close relationship with Domenica and Jean had business as well as social overtones: through her own Newmont Mining Corp., Maggie owned nearly half the stock in Domenica's and Jean's rich Zellidja mines. There were rumors that, dissatisfied with the long-term plans of the Zellidja management, she was planning...
...recorder is purring softly; the mike is cradled close to Zsa Zsa's bosom...
...title of managing editor, is a man who has had his eye on the job all along: harddriving, stolid, German-born Erwin Swangard, 50, who was demoted from assistant managing editor to night city editor by Scott, is cordially disliked by most Sunmen. Swangard thought that Scott was too close to his staff to be a good boss, and had mistakenly tried to run the whole paper as a column. Boomed Swangard: "All I want is production. We don't need gimmicks and flash; we need hard-nosed reporting, honesty, accuracy and depth...
Genetic Freaks. Corn is a hybridizer's delight because its male part (the tassel) and its female part (the immature ear) are separate on the plant and can easily be hand pollinated. Most other crops have their male and female parts close together. The long-sought key to separation of the sexes in order to hybridize other commercial crops came accidentally with the discovery of patches of sorghum that had hereditary male sterility. From this seedsmen developed a hybrid. This year the U.S. is planting 8,000,000 acres to hybrid sorghum for feed-half the entire sorghum crop...
...fairly lively canvas to bounce around on. The songs are not much, but Cagney carries them off nicely in a hollered-out, newsboy alto that makes Shirley (Oklahoma!) Jones, the girl he doesn't get, sound like Renata Tebaldi. But not even the pleasure of catching Cagney at close to his best can entirely appease the sense that this is really an amoral little movie. Not even the greediest hands in labor's till have ever publicly demanded what this picture demands: the right to steal...