Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Agog with glory after his fast tour as a "freelance newsman" trailing Fidel Castro's rebels in bar-bereft Cuba, where his trained eye zeroed in on the local frails, thirsted mightily for a stiffer mode of life ("Water to me is undrinkable"), and scribbled notebooks full of tidbits for a biography of Hero Fidel ("We're on a first-name basis"), paunchy Cinemactor Errol Flynn, 49, swashbuckled into Manhattan to praise his friend. "I've admired this man for at least two years," said Flynn, leaning heavily on the Disneylandish bar (fuchsia with pink lights...
David Goldbogen, brother of the late Cinemogul Mike Todd, last week had an eye-boggling idea for dressing up the plot in Forest Park, Ill., where Mike's body lies. The proposal: a 9-ft.-tall, 2-ton, $8,000 marble statue of filmdom's Oscar, which Mike won for Around the World in 80 Days (still busy at the box offices). No inscription would mar the marble, said David, adding thoughtfully: "We would want to keep the memorial simple." But at week's end Hollywood's Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences warned that...
...Barbara's Own. Protests to the Defense Department from P.O.A.U. and various Protestant chaplains resulted in toning down the St. Maurice movement at both posts, plus last week's directive from the Adjutant General. But P.O.A.U. is still casting an uneasy eye around the armed services. The organization is currently checking into the possibility of undue Catholic pressure in the naming of the I Corps Artillery's post in Korea four years ago as Camp St. Barbara and the report that artillerymen there are calling themselves "St. Barbara's Own."* "This thing seems to be spreading...
...blasting an impact pit in its surface. The bigger pits punched through the moon's crust and were filled with lava from the molten interior. The biggest satellite of all, about 100 miles in diameter, hit the present site of the lunar plain called Mare Imbrium-the right eye of the "man in the moon...
...base, he founded Republic Steel Corp. as the nation's third biggest producer. That year he also won control of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. Operating from his Cleveland-based Otis & Co., a securities firm, and a maze of holding companies, Eaton's deals were faster than the eye -or most financial experts-could follow. He helped topple Utilityman Samuel Insull by outfoxing him in a deal that cost Insull companies $56 million...