Word: dimes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Hollywood, garrulous Cinemactress Zsa Zsa Gabor issued one of her regular reports on her pillar-to-post romance with closemouthed Dominican Playboy Porfirio Rubirosa, now listlessly awaiting a Dominican divorce from his fourth wife, Five & Dime Heiress Barbara Mutton. "He is screaming about my career," screamed Zsa Zsa. "Rubi has forced me to choose between him and my career. And now it looks like I'll have to choose my acting . . . I'm in too much of a hurry to become a top actress." Every once in a while, also complained Zsa Zsa, Rubirosa's easygoing...
...California Oil East Coast subsidiary of Standard Oil of California. Endter told reporters that he had resigned when forced to choose between his $50,000-a-year job and his pledge to Wolfson to join his slate. Said Endter: "Everyone said I must be crazy. I left without a dime from the company...
Ambassador to Britain Winthrop Aldrich, a conservative banker turned progressive diplomat, decided to have a Washington's Birthday party for the housewarming of his official mansion, a cavernous Regency Park residence given to the U.S. Government by Five & Dime Heiress Barbara Mutton in 1946. Although Aldrich wanted everything "informal," invitations to 330 guests called for "evening dress and decorations," a sure tipoff that royalty would be present. With some 50 Scotland Yardmen and bobbies barring gate-crashers (including all newsmen), the regal parade was led by Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip and Queen Mother Elizabeth. After Aldrich whirled...
...inch in diameter, but Roy J. Smollet of the Naval Ordnance Laboratory, Silver Spring, Md., has built a radio transmitter that fits into its nose and leaves room to spare. The transmitter has one transistor, a coil half an inch across, and a mercury battery considerably smaller than a dime. When the shell is fired, it sends out a wave that tells how the shell is spinning and whether it is wobbling in its flight...
Pride's early promise was such that he was among the handful of Reserve officers accepted in the postwar Navy. He was assigned to the battleship Arizona, in charge of a small air unit. His first planes were French Nieuports-war relics with the reliability of dime-store watches. They took off from a short runway built over the Arizona's forward gun turret; it was a good way to end up in the drink, and at least once, Pride did. There was little improvement when Pride's outfit got British Sopwith Camels. Recalls Pride: "When they...