Word: gooding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nickels & Dimes. For all her clowning and her casualness. Shirley is as serious about money as the Bank of America. She is sure that Producer Wallis is exploiting her, and the idea is galling. ("I'm a very good business woman and I don't like to be hooked.") When Wallis paid her only $15,000 to play in Running, she almost backed out of the picture, refused to show up on the set until the day before shooting began. As Walk's tells it, he is entitled to a profit for taking a chance...
...industry pumped out the goods to consumers, even the troubled railroads looked for good times ahead. By last week a series of successive jumps brought carloadings up to a point almost 13% ahead of last year. There was no doubt that the boom was still picking up speed...
...into international Rotary as a director, won quick recognition as an articulate Rotary spokesman and idea man. As Rotary's president, he will devote his time to developing more "people-to-people contact" among nations. Says he: "There is a tremendous area for the development of friendship and good will on a personal basis-something no government can accomplish. We should not be concerned with the techniques of peace, but with the will to peace...
...Paris and said, in her low, exciting voice, "It is the only miracle"-meaning love. Duff took love and drink in immoderation. Depending on the flow of checks from England, she and her upper-Bohemian lover, Pat Swazey, lived on champagne or birdseed. Duff called strangers "darling" and friends "good chaps," had a title by marriage, and as anyone may guess, was the model for Hemingway's Lady Brett Ashley. Though happily married, Hemingway was apparently just enough involved with Duff himself to be oath-muttering mad when she and Harold took off for a two-week seaside idyll...
Gideon of Scotland Yard. Jolly good fun for the crime crowd, with Jack Hawkins puffing the inspectorial briar...