Word: friendly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mason's fifteen cats that got his tongue. Every day, when she rises from her noon bath in their Beverly Hills mansion, his wife, coruscant Pamela Mason, 42, begins talking with the literate sting of a Parisian presiding over her salon. An old friend, Screenwriter Nunnally Johnson, says: "She talks like a woman who was born analyzed. She is happily malicious...
...farce and slapstick went on uninterrupted until 1957, when Costello ended the partnership and tried unsuccessfully to become a more serious actor. Last week, at the moment when retired Bud Abbott received word that Lou Costello had died, he was watching himself on a TV rerun, telling his little friend "Who's on first...
Married in 1946 to Dancer Vera Zorina (his second), Lieberson likes to be a friend of the famous, is an untiring name-dropper. He was delighted when Rosemary Clooney substituted his name for Franklin Roosevelt's in her recording of How About You?, came up with: "And Goddard Lieberson's looks give me a thrill." Now Lieberson is guiding Columbia into stereophonic sound, this year is planning 200 stereo albums. He is convinced that stereo is a logical refinement of LP rather than another technological revolution, that what is put on records is still more important than...
...fourth quarter, the 5 ft. 11 in. Miss Fogarty fouled out for overguarding. Lacking height and experience without the captain, guards Brenda Baird, Nancy Jacobson, and substitute Judy Friend failed to halt the high-pressure B.C. forwards, who went on to score nine points...
PRIX RENAUDOT. The awakening of a West Indian seemed a noble enough theme for Negro Poet Edouard Glissant's La Lezarde. The murder of a young Martinique native and the accidental killing of the murderer's girl friend, who is then devoured by the murderer's own dogs, might even be construed to symbolize poetic justice. But literary justice miscarried when Glissant got a prize; critics thought him an intriguing but inept writer...