Word: dime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like nothing so much as a Hollywood version of a Mississippi River gambler-a moody and monolithic male with a dark, Civil War mustache, a cold and acquisitive eye, and a brawler's shoulder-swinging walk. He affects dark glasses, wears a diamond ring as big as a dime on one rocklike fist, and on the flat Texas highways drives his royal blue Cadillac at 100 m.p.h., often with a whiskey bottle at his side. He likes to shoot craps at $1,000 a throw, and has a longshoreman's uninhibited propensity for barroom fights...
Peter of Yugoslavia, Austria's Archduke Franz Joseph, and Lady Franks, wife of the British ambassador. Wedding gifts included a set of Doulton china from Princess Elizabeth, and, for David, six suits and a complete dental rehabilitation job on both uppers & lowers, from his friend, five-&-dime heir Woolworth Donohue...
Thelma Jordon (Paramount), in telling the story of a fall guy, has a production polish as bright as a new dime but uses a plot that was minted long ago. Wendell Corey is a petulant assistant district attorney with an ever-loving wife (Joan Tetzel) and two movie-perfect children. But he goes on a binge and is exposed to the mature blandishments of Barbara Stanwyck, who gets him involved in a nasty murder. Corey is disbarred and Barbara dies in an auto accident over the convenient Hollywood cliff that has served as the execution block for many an offender...
...Smoker will be held in Memorial Hall and Sanders Theater, but '53 will pay 60 cents a ticket, "slightly more" than in previous years. Rising costs have boosted the price of the ticket to 50 cents, and the entertainment tax ups the price another dime...
Married. Cinemactor Gary (I Was a Male War Bride) Grant, 45, and Cinemactress Betsy (Every Girl Should Be Married) Drake, 26, who became his screen protégée two years ago; he for the third time (No. 2: five & dime Heiress Barbara Hutton), she for the first time; after an elopement from Hollywood in a plane piloted by Best Man Howard Hughes; near Phoenix, Ariz...