Word: famed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sorts of things have been added: fantasy, turgid humor, breathless monologues. "It's happening, Moss, all of it . . . It's all true!" Hamilton whispers to himself. But the muse that spurred Moss Hart to fame has clearly strayed. If this were an out-of-town tryout, the closing notice would have gone up in Boston. As they say on the Main Stem, Act One needs work...
Conversion to Capitalism. While he was writing Mr. Dooley, Dunne had been the scourge of Wall Street and all its "malefactors of great wealth." But when fame came his way, Dunne preferred the company of Wall Streeters. When he managed to go broke at the height of the bull market in the 1920s, his well-placed friends bailed him out, and one left him a legacy of half a million. In his memoirs, Dunne describes how he pushed Harding for the presidency for no better reason than that he looked like a President and had a noble handshake...
...confused with Jazz Drummer Jo Jones, 52, of Count Basic fame, who is not to be confused with "Philly Joe" Jones, 40, also a jazz drummer, and none of whom are to be confused with Muralist and TIME Cover Artist Joe Jones, who died last April...
Born. To Carol Burnett, 28, boisterous beanpole who gained fame on CBS's Garry Moore Show, and Joseph Hamilton, 34, its producer: a daughter (Hamilton has eight children by his first wife, whom he divorced in May when he married Miss Burnett); in Manhattan...
Pride & Principle. For the Rothschilds, who still retained some of their Yiddish accents and ghetto ways, money also bought culture, fame and a degree of acceptance. They were celebrated in the writings of Byron and Thackeray; artists such as Ingres painted their women; Balzac and Browning sought out their sumptuous but always kosher tables; Rossini composed music for their parties; Bismarck and British royalty attended them. From Buckinghamshire to Bohemia, the Rothschilds put up marble palaces, acquired vineyards and stables. Breathed Lady Eastlake: "The Medicis were never lodged so in the height of their glory...