Word: flo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vision had caught the California eye. On weekends, happy Californians packed the place like an amusement park, a sort of Disneyland of death. Some came to see the statues or to inspect the graves of their favorite show people-Tom Mix, Jean Harlow, Carole Lombard, Irving Thalberg, Marie Dressier, Flo Ziegfeld are buried in Forest Lawn. Many found that the 100.000 shrubs provided plenty of quiet places to neck in. Eaton encouraged them all, and reached them all with the Forest Lawn message: "Everything at time of sorrow, in one sacred place, under one friendly management, with one convenient credit...
Price never forgets the housewife in planning his houses, has introduced countless innovations to save time, labor and space. In his 1960 line of all-aluminum French Regency houses, he has installed a "traffic-flo" bathroom with two entrances to cut down traffic jams...
...Since 1933 she has brought in about $11 million in network time charges, helped Procter & Gamble sell 3 billion boxes of Oxydol (to get clothes "whiter than sun-white''). Last year Ma was leased to other sponsors, e.g., Lever Bros. (Spry for "nongreasy donuts") and Lipton ("new Flo-Thru Tea Bags"), but P.&G. refused to sell her outright...
Died. Belle Baker (real name: Bella Becker), 62, black-eyed vaudeville singer with a powerful "early-morning" husky voice, who meteored from poverty to fame with richly plaintive versions of Eli Eli and My Yiddishe Momme, star (1926) of Flo Ziegfeld's production of Betsy, by Rodgers and Hart; of a heart attack; in Hollywood...
Died. Eugene Edward (Gene) Buck, 71, longtime (1924-42) chief of ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers), composer of some 500 songs (Hello, Frisco!, Tulip Time) and talent scout for Flo Ziegfeld (he boomed such unknowns as Ed Wynn, Eddie Cantor, Will Rogers); of an aneurysm of the aorta; in Manhasset...