Word: golds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Henry Fonda, 51, tall, blue-eyed and durable player of heart-of-gold heroes through two decades of Broadway and Hollywood (Mister Roberts, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial); and slim, dark Italian Contessa Aídera Franchetti, 24; he for the fourth time, she for the first; in Manhattan...
...huge mahogany desk, in a suite of offices in Newark built in the days when insurance men spent heavily for purposes of prestige. Hand-carved Honduras mahogany frames the president's doors and windows; the walls are covered with silver-filigreed blue paper, the ceiling fringed with gold leaf; deep piled rugs smother the floor. Shanks sometimes works in his shirtsleeves, dials his own phone...
...Gold of Naples. Italian Director Vittorio De Sica makes a high comedy of low life in Naples, and wins some superb performances from Sophia Loren. Silvana Mangano, Toto and Vittorio De Sica (TIME...
...from Marxism those who preferred patriotism to party. Then, when the whole movement seemed to have collapsed, the Bolshevik revolution came to rally the U.S. left in a kind of "ecstasy." At this stage many an older reader will recognize the names. An ex-anarchist named Michael Gold was converted; Eugene Debs declared himself a Bolshevik; Max Eastman was elated. Many a poor visionary in New York-remembering a fellow sometimes called Bronstein who had lived in The Bronx and would lecture for $10 a night-now felt the taste of vicarious power and destiny when he heard that this...
...founder of the Broadmoor, Spec Penrose, typifies the somewhat extravagant manner that the resort exudes. Penrose came west from Philadelphia in 1891 and parlayed $150 dollars into a fortune through his participation in the Cripple Creek gold boom. Penrose then practically took over the city of Colorado Springs. In 1918, however, when the management of the Antlers Hotel asked him not to shoot off his gun in their bar, Spec angrily stalked out and started building his own hotel, where he could "shoot his gun off any time he pleased." The result was the Broadmoor...