Word: glenn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Teahouse of the August Moon. Menu: tee-hee (scented with sociology) and a side dish of red-white-and-blue-striped slapstick, charmingly served by Marlon Brando, Glenn Ford, Machiko Kyo (TIME...
...damage: $100,000), who was already in residence at his other home in Beverly Hills. (Movie pressagents, sniffing some profitable headlines for their clients, quickly got into the act with a string of announcements describing the tribulations of various movie folk, e.g., Kim Novak, Jane Russell, Alan Ladd and Glenn Ford. Even Hedda Hopper's hats got a mention when the ranch owned by her male milliners was burned...
...class beyond the average taxi dance hall. He publicized it as the "home of refined dancing" and installed two continuously playing orchestras (practically unheard of till then). He spotted and hired the comers in the dance-band world: Vincent Lopez, Harry James, Louis Armstrong, the Dorseys and Glenn Miller, brought in such headliners as Ted Lewis, Paul Whiteman and Duke Ellington...
...poll to determine the year's biggest box-office draws. Herald's top-ten ratings, including only two actresses and reflecting the opinions of some 16,000 theater owners in the U.S. and Canada: 1) William Holden, 2) John Wayne, 3) James Stewart, 4) Burt Lancaster, 5) Glenn Ford, 6) Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, 7) Gary Cooper, 8) Marilyn Monroe, 9) Kim Novak, 10) Frank Sinatra...
Over cocktails, an eminent U.S. chemist expressed his concern about the dearth of young people interested in scientific careers. A television producer in search of programs overheard him. "If you feel that way," he said, "you should do something about it." So the chemist, Nobel Prizewinner Glenn T. Seaborg, co-discoverer of plutonium, and the TVman, Program Director Jonathan Rice of San Francisco's educational Station KQED, got together. The result of this collaboration, a series of ten half-hour television lessons called The Elements, will begin in January over the 22 educational TV stations...