Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...elder Insull was jailed in Turkey while, awaiting deportation to the U.S. for trial, and again for a week in Cook County while his son raised $200,000 bail. But he was found innocent of all charges: mail fraud, embezzlement, and violation of the bankruptcy laws...
...book, the Harvard historian mentioned that a Cook County grand jury had indicted the father for embezzlement. Schlesinger denies that he ever made any mention of the young Insull and that he never said anyone was convicted...
...public eye most of the time since their marriage nine weeks ago, Old (53) Groaner Bing Crosby and his bride, Cinemorsel Kathy (Operation Mad Ball) Grant, 24, ventured forth in Sunday best for the Hollywood premiere of The Bridge on the River Kwai. Brainy Kathy, a qualified cook by virtue of a college home-economics course, disclosed that she is now studying chemistry because, "I was a fine arts major [University of Texas], and I feel I have neglected the physical sciences. It's very good mental discipline...
...grows from a leg-and-larynx zest, a mating of sales-talk incantation and engaging panhandle stride. And something of this solo zip is mass-produced in the festive small-town spin of Onna White's dances. Prettily singing the show's over-pretty romantic tunes, Barbara Cook provides a contrastingly quiet charm. The Music Man is not pure cream, only nice, fresh half-and-half. But it particularly catches the jubilant oldtime energy of a small-town jamboree-an energy whose modern habitat may well be the musi-comedy stage...
...Movies. By oldtime standards, the camp was a plush resort. Air-dropped supplies floated down regularly. There was plenty of room for everyone in the huts, which were connected by undersnow tunnels. The men ran movies three times a week, exulted in the talents of their cook. About once a week they talked by radiotelephone to their families. Occasionally, some of them got tired of hearing certain hi-fi records, took to hiding them around the camp (one victim: twangy Ballad Singer-Guitarist Burl Ives). But the men balked only once-when a stateside psychologist sent down a lengthy questionnaire...