Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...actor is rarely presented with such an opportunity for the grand entrance. The other guests, deep in talk and Escalope de Veau Viennoise, were setups for a shrewd performance. But Guinness somehow managed to get through a crowd of 500 people without being particularly noticed. After dinner he shyly accepted the club's award as the Best Film Actor of 1957, and then a Columbia executive produced the Oscar. Applause. Alec fidgeted, looked bashfully pleased, mumbled a few words about the "many people in show business who helped me," sat down...
...incident was characteristic. Alec Guinness is a public recluse in the grand theatrical tradition of Maude Adams, Greta Garbo and Paul Muni. And shut up in the passionate reserve is one of the most difficult, complex and enigmatic Englishmen who ever reached for the rouge. "A dark horse," says Sir Laurence Olivier, "a deep one." Director David (Kwai) Lean adds: "Alec is one of the most fantastically knotted-up men I know." And all agree with the actor who called him "the best-kept secret of modern times, a sort of one-man Tibet...
Americans were buying more food than ever. Kroger Co. earnings hit a record $1.27, up from $1.14 on fewer shares a year ago. National Biscuit Co. expected slightly better earnings than last year, as did General Baking Co. Grand Union increased its dividend from 18? to 20? a quarter on the basis of record sales. And General Foods, buoyed up by the best first quarter in its history, broke into the elite $1 billion sales club for the first time in the fiscal year ending March...
...difference between the grand old German guidebook and Fielding is the difference between the portemanteau and the lightweight aluminum suitcase, the wary Culture-Vulture and the fun-loving American Skimmer. Where Baedeker led the reader to every last statue, Fielding is apt to dismiss monuments ("The place is practically crawling with history") in favor of menus. Where Baedeker might discreetly warn of dangers abroad (beware of bedbugs), Fielding's personal, pithy and frank approach would make old Herr Baedeker blush. Is the traveler enticed by a sexy blonde in a continental nightspot? Fielding's warnings: 1) chances...
...federal grand jury began checking into the books of the capital's Ford, Chevrolet and Chrysler dealers' associations; the Justice Department is investigating others throughout the nation. While packing is not illegal when performed by individual dealers, the jury will investigate complaints of dealer associations' price fixing, which is against the law. The Government suspects that dealers who sell one line are forming area associations to make secret fixes of prices of new cars and trade-ins. By agreeing on the size of the pack, they eliminate competition among themselves...