Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shotters make their biggest mark with personalities as subjects (Elvis Presley, Pope Pius XII, Billy Graham, Marilyn Monroe). But the bulk of them do well on hobbies and special guidance. Sample: Your Hair-Do, How to Buy Air Conditioning, Fix-It Yourself, Complete Guide for Young Marrieds. The magazines sell from 15? to $1, take two months to produce in any quality, usually print at least 100,000 copies and live from three months to a year on the newsstands. Five publishers dominate the field, using small but expert editing and layout staffs and free-lance writers. Only the biggest...
...Independents. Short, round-faced ex-dancer (with Martha Graham), ex-Hollywood Agent Harold Adolph Hecht, 49, who runs the business end of the partnership and shares authority with Lancaster, is convinced that this is the era of independent producers. Small production outfits are multiplying, and such major studio chiefs as Darryl Zanuck and Jerry Wald have recently quit their jobs to form independent companies...
...delivery, buffed and polished each polysyllabic pearl of syntax and rhetoric before his pretty blonde wife. This week he was ready with a keynote speech that was charged with a rare potential of metaphor, simile and alliteration, borrowed liberally from orators ranging from Cicero to Daniel Webster to Billy Graham...
...fine choral chants. And Henry Hallstrom's extensive musical score, played by 21 members of the National Symphony Orchestra, was unusually distinguished and carefully synchronized. No less expert was the chorus' dancing of Eleanor Struppa's choreography. Executed with precision, the dancing adapted most effective the modern Martha Graham stylistic approach...
...Minneapolis' annual "Aquatennial" wound up ten days of parades, stage and water shows (featuring the Aqua Follies, Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy, a water-ski circus and Rin-Tin-Tin) with Evangelist Billy Graham. In one Sunday-morning session he outpulled them all with an overflow audience of 21,000 and 500 "decisions for Christ." Aquatennial directors, said the show business weekly Variety, will try to bring him back next year. ¶ President Eisenhower signed into law a bill authorizing commercial airlines to grant reduced fares to clergymen on a "space available" basis, i.e., without advance reservations...