Search Details

Word: desi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Ferraris, eleven of them, hidden away in an airport hangar, where brown-coveralled mechanics tinkered lovingly with valves and fuel pumps. They came in all shapes and sizes, from a twelve-cylinder, 420-h.p. experimental car to a 340-h.p. gran turismo, a first cousin of the one that Desi Arnaz tools around Hollywood. Behind these wheels was an international Who's Who of racing: Scotland's Innes Ireland, Mexico's Pedro Rodriguez, the U.S.'s Roger Penske, Britain's John Surtees had a 340-h.p. roadster and mustachioed Graham Hill, the 1962 Grand Prix...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto Racing: Another for the Monster | 4/5/1963 | See Source »

...Married. Desi Arnaz, 46, TV ex-tycoon (Desilu Productions Inc.) and ex-husband (Lucille Ball); and Edith Mack Hirsch, 45, wife until earlier last week of Millionaire Sportsman Clement Hirsch, and like Lucy a redhead; both for the second time; in Las Vegas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 8, 1963 | 3/8/1963 | See Source »

Last week Lucille Ball, 51, now stuffed with cash from ear to ear, bought out her ex-husband Desi Arnaz for $2,000,000 and change, becoming the new president of Desilu Productions, Inc., one of the largest and most successful TV producing units in Hollywood (The Lucille Ball Show, Fair Exchange, The Untouchables). Ex-President Desi wants to get out of show business and dive more deeply into his horse breeding, country club and real estate interests. He is leaving Lucy with 52% of a company now valued at $20 million, a figure that almost exactly equals the pile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Desiloot | 11/16/1962 | See Source »

...Lucy Show (CBS, 8:30-9 p.m.). Lucy clowns about with a $2,000 check in her new series, which does fine without Desi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Oct. 19, 1962 | 10/19/1962 | See Source »

...sober tones befitting his position as a corporation president, bongo-bopping Producer Desi Arnaz, 45, told the 75 stockholders that Desilu Productions Inc. netted $611,921 from such TV productions as The Untouchables and Ben Casey last year and aims for $1,000,000 in fiscal 1963. On the president's left, looking like a rainbow in red hair, green slacks, yellow blouse, white loafers, sat Lucille Ball, 51. his exwife, a major stockholder and $25,000-a-year vice president. Grinned Desi introducing Lawyer Milton Rudin: "He was so good representing Mrs. Arnaz in our divorce, I thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 31, 1962 | 8/31/1962 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Next