Word: glamoured
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Living in Glamour. At 20 (and looking younger), unrestrainedly ambitious and insufferably cocksure, Zanuck set out to conquer Hollywood. He quickly became the nuisance of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, which was then home to such important personages as Charlie Chaplin, Mack Sennett and Fatty Arbuckle. "I'd have given my right arm to be in the picture business," he recalls. "Living in the glamour of it, hearing stories about it all day long and not being a part of it, hurt...
Despite the glamour of moviemaking, Hollywocdians have always thought that the fattest profits in the movie industry were made by the theater operators. Last week they had proof. The two Paramount companies, divorced last year in line with the U.S. Supreme Court decision to separate production from exhibition, issued their first quarterly reports...
Britain's dingy, cotton-weaving city of Lancaster (pop. 50,250) has lost most of the glamour and importance that clung to its name in the days of John of Gaunt and the Wars of the Roses. But it cherishes today one spectacular bloom in the person of its dashing Tory M.P., Brigadier Fitzroy Maclean, 39, whose recently published bestseller, Eastern Approaches, has made its author one of the most popular political figures in the United Kingdom...
...glamour of television has kept the industry's stocks well out in front of 1950's bull market. But even bulls were amazed at the scramble to buy TV stocks last week. What started the rush were reports by Admiral Corp. and Motorola Inc. that their first-quarter sales were double and their profits triple the rate for 1949's same period. The stock of Motorola, which reported estimated earnings of $3.50 a share for the first quarter, shot up 8 points in one day's trading to 50⅛. Admiral, with earnings...
There was little of Flatbush left in the dark-eyed, glamour-bobbed brunette who called herself Yvette Madsen. Only a hint of Canarsie in her consonants, a touch of Gowanus in her vowels remained to mark her as plain Jane Noack, a kid born in Brooklyn 22 years ago. Yvette was glad enough to have left Jane behind...