Word: famous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wheeler (Big Fish, Little Fish) has a stage version of the Shirley Jackson novel, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, a disturbing mystery about two sisters in Vermont. Actor Stephen Levi has turned out a first play, Daphne in Cottage D about the widow (Sandy Dennis) of a famous movie star...
...current market as bad as the last great break in 1962. That time, the slide was signaled in April after the famous confrontation between President John F. Kennedy and U.S. Steel's Roger Blough. The steel-price rollback resulted in a two-day loss of 9.79 on the industrials, but in the next week the average gained back two-thirds of that loss. In May, after a steady downturn, investors panicked. The industrial average declined 38.82 in five trading days, and on the following Monday sellers colored it blue. The industrials lost 34.95 points...
...girl in The Scottish Chiefs and is the wife of Wyeth-trained Artist John McCoy II. Henriette, who was one of three boys in her father's illustration for Mark Twain's The Mysterious Stranger, is a painter and the wife of a painter, Peter Hurd. Most famous of all: Andrew Wyeth, 49, who last posed for his father in Anthony Adverse...
...third-floor boardroom of Boston's State Street Bank Building, directors of the Lee Higginson Corp. grimly debated for eight hours the future of their firm-oldest and one of the most famous of U.S. investment houses. When they finally arrived at a decision, Lee Higginson was dead. For an "undisclosed amount," Manhattan's relatively youthful (age 74), fast-growing (60 branches) Hayden, Stone Inc. bought Lee Higginson's name (which it will not use), offices and assets in Boston, New York, Chicago and four other cities...
...army. It is too much for one of the officers (unduly sensitive to such questions, as his beloved broad has just been diagnosed for cancer), who would maybe like to join a way-outfit called the Anti-Death League. This is an intelligent man's nightmare, with the famous Amis wit flickering as an unkindly light amid the encircling gloom...