Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leaving the raising of children entirely to hired nurses can be bad for the child-but that a mother's constant, overworked and irritable attendance can be just as bad. They know that cooking is fun-but also that having to jump up and down before and during dinner to rush kitchenward destroys what little is left of the game of conversation in the U.S. They know that waxing a floor or putting up curtains can be satisfying or at least therapeutic-but they also know that time spent reading a book or working on a hospital committee, quite...
...crooner is a suave, smoky-eyed predator. His natural habitat is the supper club, his prey the middle-aged female. Cologned, imperially trim, hair sculptured and pomaded, he moves in the spotlight's golden glow like a young god, a smiling vision in pancake makeup, velvet-trimmed dinner jacket, and patent-leather shoes...
...revolutionary complexities of sound, set his seal as a producer on the industry by proving that literary classics such as Anna Karenina, A Tale of Two Cities, Little Lord Fauntleroy and Little Women could be transferred to the screen with fidelity and power. Other Selznick productions included King Kong, Dinner at Eight and A Star Is Born. And for ten years running, movie exhibitors ranked him No. 1 producer of box-office successes. But even as death came to Selznick last week at the age of 63, he was still most famed for Gone With the Wind, the film that...
...1920s, joined the calming team. President Johnson had him conspicuously on hand when he signed the excise-tax-cut bill, passed him one of the pens. Next day, Johnson trotted out Martin (along with several Cabinet officers) to give a reassuring reading of the economy at a White House dinner for 50 top businessmen and labor leaders. If Martin's arm had been twisted, he took it without a grimace...
...practical automobile shock absorber, netted nearly $10 million selling the device to Detroit's automakers before he sold his company to Otis & Co., investors, for $4,000,000 in 1925, whereupon he retired to a $3,500 bungalow on Lake Erie, emerging in 1952 to host a huge dinner party at which he distributed $3,879,700 to 16 charitable and educational Cleveland organizations because "too many institutions get their money from dead men"; of cerebral arteriosclerosis; in Bellevue, Ohio...