Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Decision. Next day the White House was deluged with urgent calls from Philadelphia. Harry Truman said he just wanted to feel out the sentiment of the delegates, insisted that he had made no hard & fast decision. In fact, he did not even know definitely that Douglas was available...
...Dearest Mommie." But she was recklessly in love again-this time with lean, British-born Actor Rex Harrison, a man Hollywood had nicknamed "Sexy Rexy." One night last week, after Harrison had dined with her at her big Pacific Palisades house, Frances Ridste gulped a few fast highballs and wrote a note to her "Dearest Mommie." She scribbled: "Goodbye, my angel. Pray for me." She signed it, "Your Baby." Then she took a lethal handful of sleeping pills, sank to the bathroom floor, and died...
Last week the infant World Video was growing fast. Only one show, Paris Cavalcade of Fashion, which began last May, was on the air. But 60 other husky young ideas are in some stage of production, and Steinbeck & Co. are looking around for more. "We're the only people who are doing shows," he explains. "Everybody else is having lunch and talking about them...
Matthew Fox has a solid reputation as an expert kibitzer and operator, with an inordinately sharp eye for a fast buck. A movie man by trade, he has backed such side bets as Bub-0-Loon, three-dimensional pictures, the "everlasting match" (TIME, Oct. 13). Last winter he quit his $150,00b-a-year job as executive vice president of Universal-International Pictures to make side bets his life work. One of them turned out to be a new main chance: the Indonesian Republican government heeded $80,000 fast, and Matty Fox thought he could arrange it. He did. Then...
...stage-struck Newark boy who acted on Broadway, then switched to writing. After six years as a Hollywood scripter, Dore Schary (rhymes, in Hollywood, with hoary sherry) won an Oscar for his work on Boys Town (1938). He moved forward fast-right into a producer's office, first with MGM, later with David Selznick...