Word: fiftyish
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...Truman Administration, a trusty news source for hardworking, Fair-Dealing Columnist Doris Fleeson, fiftyish, was Navy Secretary Dan A. Kimball. At long last on the asking side of a question, California Businessman (Aerojet-General Corp.) Kimball, 62, earned the right answer, last week provided Newshen Fleeson, ex-wife of the New York Daily News's Washington Columnist John O'Donnell, with a homegrown item: she and Dan, whose first marriage was dissolved last year, will be married next month at the home of Manhattan friends...
Died. Mike Todd, fiftyish, producer in a plane crash; near Grants, N. Mex (see CINEMA...
...idea, of course, was to give the glamorous Dietrich back to the millions who once adored her on the screen-and who still jampack the nightclubs she plays in. But Director Samuel Taylor has tactlessly insisted that the lady (who now admits to being fiftyish) concentrate on sex, and has largely overlooked the possibilities of her sophisticated comedy talents. The moviegoer, as a result, is sometimes painfully aware that the siren is a bit rusty; yet he is seldom allowed to realize that the belle, even with diminished resonance, still rings...
Died. Helen Twelvetrees (Payne), fiftyish, oldtime Hollywood leading lady (to such stars as John Barrymore, Robert Taylor, Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy), who played in State's Attorney, Disgraced, The Ghost Talks; by her own hand (an overdose of barbiturates); at Olmsted Air Force Base, near Harrisburg...
...American innocence v. European corruption. Reflected in the golden eye of a Mediterranean setting, what is sordid and depraved becomes corrosively hilarious. Spiro Polymerides is a sun-baked peasant Apollo. He is taken up by an arty, effeminate, high-minded official of a U.S. relief mission in Athens. To fiftyish Irvine Stroh, Spiro is a kind of male Liza Doolittle, whom he goes about refashioning in his own cultural image. Actually, Irvine is an emotional neuter except for the heartsickness he feels when Greek mulcts Greek. Spiro, who as an adolescent saw Communists murder his father and mother, regards Irvine...