Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paramount scout in London spotted her. One picture, called Monte Carlo Baby, called for location shots in Monaco's Hotel de Paris. Just as Audrey stepped into the rays of the klieg lights in the lobby to run through her brief scene as a honeymooning bride, the door swung open and in rolled an old lady in a wheelchair. It was famed French Novelist Colette, one of whose many bestselling novels, Gigi, had just been dramatized in English by Anita (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) Loos. Colette held up an imperious finger to halt the wheelchair as Audrey...
Housewives in six New England states were surprised last month to meet a new breed of bill collector-Internal Revenue Service agents, who traveled from door to door with a sometimes embarrassing question: Had the occupant paid his federal taxes? If the answer was yes, the canvassers asked for proof-a receipt, return or canceled check. If no evidence was available, the agents took down names & addresses to check against the service's records. If delinquency was admitted, the agents were happy to accept on-the-spot payments. Door-slammers were likely to be visited by another kind...
After lunch Ehrman dashed out, bought the first editions of the Italian papers and offered to translate them for the Shah. The Shah gratefully accepted, and Ehrman thoughtfully closed the door of the Shah's suite behind him. Later, when other newsmen got in for a press conference, they found Ehrman already there. After the conference, as they raced out to lobby telephones, Ehrman used the Shah's own phone, put in another call to the A.P. bureau with the Shah at his side, dictated his own interview ("His majesty has kindly consented to tell...
Rootes's bestseller in the U.S. is his Hillman Minx, a small "economy" car (four-door sedan: $1,699). But Sir William is betting heavily on a new, more expensive sports model: the fast, sporty Sunbeam-Talbot Alpine. First shown in the U.S. last April, the low-cut Alpine later clocked 120 m.p.h. in Belgium's Jabbeke "flying mile" run, and last month chalked up a perfect score in the grueling Alpine Rally endurance test (2,000 miles through 31 mountain passes, five countries). Its engine is basically the same as the Sunbeam-Talbot "90" that last year...
...idea that it was time to get the banks out of mausoleums," explains Architect Louis Skidmore. In a radical departure from bank design, the safe-deposit vault (built of steel, set in granite, with a 30-ton door) will be on the main floor, in full view (with a spotlight on it at night). Another feature: a penthouse for executive offices and dining room. Like the Lever Building, the air-conditioned bank's windows will be sealed to keep out dust and grime. Says Skidmore: "We're trying to make the bank more human...