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Word: earle (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...traveled to Berlin only to find that, financially, she was the bride of a syndicate with shares in her dowry and income. Then there was a certain Lady T., who felt that her noble husband and his valet were strangely inseparable, but only when she got to the "earl's" estate did she learn that he was a lunatic and the valet was his keeper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Dollar Princesses | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Aside from Ole Earl's downfall, Long-suffering Louisianans had something else to their credit. Trailing back in third place with 138,000-and thus out of the running-was State Senator William Rainach, who billed himself as the most diehard segregationist of all, warned the voters that they had the choice of voting for him or "losing the segregation battle." The voters decided to take their chances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Ole Earl's Downfall | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

With that realization, he took the idea of the celebrity register to Earl Blackwell, proprietor of Celebrity Service, a New York-Hollywood enterprise that keeps charts on the famous. Over four years, the two put together 2,240 biographies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Noisemakers | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...have responsibility for what is on the air," said CBS's Dr. Stanton. "May I interrupt here, Frank?" said Bob Kintner. "At NBC we accept responsibility for what is on the air, too." Not to be outdone, FTC Chairman Earl Kintner (no kin to NBC's Bob) announced: "This commission is determined to take the responsibility to keep the spigots open. We hope there's a trickle down to the stations that make up the industry." As for Mutual, it had already eliminated one offensive word from all ad copy broadcasts on the network. The word: diarrhea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Climbing the Pedestal | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

Married. David Field Beatty, 2nd Earl Beatty, 54, greying playboy son of Britain's World War I Grand Fleet commander, grandson of Chicago's Merchant Prince Marshall Field; and Diane Kirk, 18, London model; he for the fourth time, she for the first, in Midhurst, England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MILESTONES: Milestones, Dec. 14, 1959 | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

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