Word: goode
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...simple sentiment about his hard-knuckled brothers: "I made them, and I can break them." At week's end, Montreal Wrestling Promoter Eddie Quinn, a part owner of El Morocco, reasoned that the Crosby combo had been booked all wrong to begin with. He offered them a good deal for a tag-team grappling match in a local arena next month, figuring that a two-against-two skirmish "might be fairer...
Cuban Sculptor Joseph Dubronyi, who has hewn enough nudes to people a colony, was about to sue the estate of "a good pal," the late Cinemactor Errol Flynn, for $5,000. The unpaid-for art object: a goldplated, 18-in. reclining figure of Flynn's last protégée, lithe Nymphet Beverly ("Woodsie") Aadland, 17, in the breathtaking altogether...
Making the advance arrangements for press coverage of the eleven-country, 19-day good-will tour on which President Eisenhower left last week, Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty was acutely conscious of the press's tendency, when gathered in more than platoon strength, to get out of control. On Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's visit to the U.S. last September, some 300 correspondents and cameramen, eagerly vying for the same story, several times turned the tour into a journalistic wreck (TIME, Oct. 5). Jim Hagerty was determined that there would be no such sideshow...
...Manhattan in a millinery house, where he was assigned to the ostrich-feather department. Before long, Marek gave up feathers for advertising, became a vice president of the J. D. Tarcher Agency, spent his days writing copy (Coty, Smith Bros.) and his nights as the regular music critic of Good Housekeeping and House Beautiful. In 1950 he made a pitch for the advertising account of RCA Victor, was turned down, but found himself with a job there as classical repertory chief...
...beneath it like an afterthought were two scientists-Commander Malcolm Ross, 40, a balloonist from the Office of Naval Research, and Physicist-Engineer Charles B. Moore Jr., 39, a balloon expert who works for Arthur D. Little Inc. of Cambridge, Mass. Their object: to get mankind's first good look at Venus clear of most of the earth's muffling atmosphere...