Word: golds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spoke proudly of his long friendship with Sherman Adams, who shared his faith in the industrial future of New England. On cue, during the reading he removed a gold wristwatch. passed it to the committee-"providing I get it back.'' Said he: "The watch I am wearing now. on the back of it is written 'to B.G.'-that means Bernard Goldfine-'from S.A.'-that's Governor Sherman Adams-dated Jan. 20. 1953. and we all know that date. That is the inauguration date President Eisenhower was inaugurated...
...crack every few minutes. At strategic intervals, therefore, McCrary wrote into the script the words: "Glass of water." (In the hearing room there were no glasses, only floppy paper cups.) Again, McCrary inserted stage directions telling Goldfine when it was time to produce props for the subcommittee. Example: a gold Le Coultre wristwatch he received in 1953 as a present from Sherman Adams-a singularly unfortunate choice, since Goldfine had long made a habit of producing the watch (inscribed "S.A. to B.G.") to impress strangers, including those with whom he was having business dealings...
...Jake Wade (MGM) is a horse opera of another color. Metro-color is what they call it, and it sure is loud. There is probably nothing more than gold in them thar hills, but to look at the screen, anybody might think there was neon. Still, the Sierra Nevada, in which much of the film was shot, is pretty hard to spoil. Its purple mountain majesties look down in mineral calm upon what is probably the most stupendous avalanche of clichés to roll across the screen since the last major western was released...
...fine; chartreuse flopped because it reminded women of baby's soiled diapers. In many cases the brighter-and sometimes the more incongruous-the package, the greater the appeal. California's Thoro-fed Dog Food watched sales jump 40% when it wrapped Fido's dinner in gleaming gold foil. Among the new gimmicks: multiple-unit "specials," with three, six and twelve items in a pack. One Midwest chain reports that it sold only nine cans of sauerkraut a week at a dime apiece, but 441 cans priced at ten cans for $1. A West Coast petfood packer sells...
Died. Alexander Malcolm Smith, 99, Scots-born explorer and prospector (for oil and gold), who became a legendary figure in the Canadian northwest and Alaska, once blazed an 1,800-mile trail from Alberta to Dawson in the Yukon Territory, later spent some time in a Soviet jail for prospecting on the fringes of Siberia; in San Jose, Calif...