Word: fadeouts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...poses as the bigshot's son (and who is intended to be lovable), Peter Price is the last, unspeakable word in precocious delinquency. Students of U.S. movie morality, noting that the t gangster's innocence of any actual killing qualifies him for a hero's fadeout, may be forced to conclude that racketeering short of murder is not punishable by Hollywood's Production Code...
...Fadeout. Around 11 a.m. Aly's pressagent stepped out of the clinic. "Gentlemen," he said portentously, "will you please stand by for an important announcement by Prince Aly Khan himself?" Rumpled and unshaven, Aly told the world: it was a ½lb. girl, a normal delivery, though "Rita had a very tough time." The baby would be called Yasmin, the Arabic word for jasmine. "I told you," he reminded a newsman, "that premature babies run in my family...