Word: filmdom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Help from Shirley. In November Salinger will face a Republican who gathered a lot of votes from a somewhat more distant past image. He is filmdom's veteran Song and Dance Man George Murphy, now 61, who is still getting a lot of free TV exposure on late-late shows as, among other things, the charming, marvelously nimble adult dancing partner of a ten-year-old named Shirley Temple. Murphy is a thoroughly respectable candidate, has been a top California Republican figure for a decade, describes himself as a "dynamic conservative," and has refused to embrace publicly either...
...second time (the first: to Bob Hope in 1962) that the Guild's award for outstanding movie achievement had been presented to someone other than a producer. President Kennedy, ex-Presidents Eisenhower and Truman telegraphed their congratulations. And then, "with great pride," surrounded by a boodle of filmdom's most glittering stars, the old tunesmith clogged every throat when he hopped to the piano to God Bless America, as only Irving...
...Shriver gingerly patted the reeking mound. At tour's end in Singapore, Shriver gratefully shucked his beat-up sneakers, khaki pants and sweat shirt for a natty tropical suit and reported that the corps is "doing better than I or anyone expected." Making the London scene was filmdom's Little Caesar Edward G. Robinson, 68, ten weeks after suffering a heart attack on location for Sammy Going South 6,000 feet up among the foothills of Tanganyika. He comforted himself during his recuperation by gazing on the works of two of his favorite painters, Cezanne and Raoul Dufy...
...filmdom's Little Caesar Edward G. Robinson, 68,stricken by a heart attack on location for Sammy Going South, 6,000 ft. high in the foothills of Tanganyika's Mount Kilimanjaro. Grizzly with chin whiskers sprouted for his role as a diamond smuggler with a heart of gold. Robinson roared from his Nairobi hospital bed: "I've never held up a production in my life. I'll be back on the set tomorrow." Doctors ordered three weeks' rest...
Married. Bess Myerson. 37. TV mistress of ceremonies. Miss America of 1945; and Manhattan Lawyer Arnold Grant. 54. razor-sharp counsel for filmdom and onetime RKO board chairman; both for the second time; in Manhattan...