Word: ever
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flag for Burning. That afternoon, ten minutes after Chargé d'Affaires Wymberley Coerr (the embassy is between ambassadors) returned from delivering a note to the Foreign Ministry stating the U.S. position that there was "no evidence" that the statement was ever made, the demonstrators were back again. They were joined by a noisy, violence-bent band of Trotskyites,† Communists and left-wing rabble-rousers of the government National Revolutionary Movement. (A big banner demanded the establishment of diplomatic relations with the U.S.S.R.) They burned the carefully hoarded copies of TIME on the doorstep of the seven-story...
...Masons descended on Hollywood in 1947, and Pamela found it such a "naively pure" town ("Peyton Place was squeamish by comparison") that she has felt compelled to educate it ever since. She has feuded with Columnist Hedda Hopper ("a dreadful person"), constantly popped off with suggestions such as harems for Hollywood husbands in order to prevent "messes like Eddie Fisher and Liz Taylor...
...jammed into costumes in which she could not "lie, bend or sit." So that West could relax a bit between takes, a board was set up for her to lean against. Marlene Dietrich, arriving for a fitting, "quickly peels down, revealing the most beautiful French lingerie I've ever seen, all white, just a touch of lace...
...Sound and the Fury (20th Century-Fox) is the most interesting operation Hollywood has ever performed on a William Faulkner book. Scriptwriters Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr., in their shrewd but ruthless resection of the story, have revised almost every episode out of all resemblance to the novel, and have tidied up almost every character so as not to offend the mass public. Nevertheless, the result of all this figuring and jiggering is a picture that is both merchantable and unexpectedly moving...
...reason for the inventory buildup is plain: consumer appetites are getting bigger. Out of General Electric's Appliance Park in Louisville went the biggest shipment ever-400 railroad cars with 22,000 appliances tagged at $5,500,000. Appliance makers noted sales running about 15% ahead of 1958 as consumers loaded up with refrigerators, washing machines, and gas and electric ranges. Much of the buying was for new houses; builders reported new residential contracts for $1,021,516,000 in January, up 32% from January 1958. With the faster pace, supplies of raw materials grew thinner as manufacturers hedged...