Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Bela Lugosi, 72, Hungarian-born cinema spook (Dracula); and Hope Lininger, 39, movie studio cutting clerk, after she wrote him daily letters during his recent hospital confinement for drug addiction; he for the fifth time, she for the first; in Hollywood...
Gangling John Henry is a goodhearted scientist who has discovered a mildly radioactive substance called Taurum while experimenting with gold at an atomic pile. Taurum turns into a crop multiplying wonder drug when applied to the soil. And John Henry, in search of more gold to convert, is soon in a head-whirling spin on the Washington merry-go-around. Author Alfred (Raising a Riot) Toombs's hot-weather farce hilariously ribs and roams the nation's capital, from cocktail binges to congressional investigations. The underlying moral, if there is one, is that the national sense of humor...
...opposite fault of Man on Spikes. Its point was crystal clear but simpleminded. An ambitious small-towner exploits his brother's boxing talents, and by overmatching him, causes him to be so gravely injured that he can never fight again. The double bromide: ambition is a drug on the market, but no cure in itself for those who are sick for success. The Gambler ("Security is for suckers"), on CBS's U.S. Steel Hour (Wed. 10 p.m., E.D.T.), was a character study of a megalomaniac, painted in overripe colors. The gambler (Jack Carson), at the nadir...
...salesman in 1924, started the company's Italian subsidiary in 1927, three years later took charge of Colgate's ten European subsidiaries. In 1940 Sims was named assistant to President E. H. Little (now board chairman and chief executive officer), later headed OPA's chemical and drug unit in Washington, became a Colgate vice president in 1945, and in 1953 first president of the newly organized Colgate-Palmolive International, which in 1954 sold $162,500,000 worth of goods abroad. New International president is Ralph A. Hart, who has been its vice president in charge of European...
...Producer Otto Preminger, working on Nelson Algren's Man with the Golden Arm (about a drug addict), announced that he may release his film without the Production Code seal. Explained one Hollywood observer: "You can't reduce a narcotics addict to an offbeat type...