Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rise was so rapid that it can be traced to her very first picture, The Trouble with Harry (1955), a Hitchcock exercise in ghoulish gaiety. She was the cute little widow who could help exhume and rebury her husband's corpse half a dozen times, looking fond, puzzled, but no more perturbed than the president of a garden club transplanting gardenias. Next came Artists and Models, one of the last joint Martin & Lewis enterprises, in which Shirley ("I was a forward comedienne in a yellow sunsuit") distinguished herself chiefly by becoming the first performer ever to steal a scene...
...have muscles in my legs like most dancers. If you do a little jump, your automatic reaction is to put your heels up. If you have a teacher yelling every minute, 'No, get your heels down,' the muscles in your calves stay long and supple." The north half of Shirley's body, she admits, "is not exactly Marilynish. In the movies and on TV, they always try to make me look bigger. But if I augment myself up there, people won't notice my legs, and my legs are supposed to be very nice...
...hold onto his job for seven years. Says Ankudinov, with a gold-toothed smile: "I am what you would call a Soviet businessman." He has plenty of business. Intourist runs 18 hotels throughout Russia, has more than 8,000 employees, handles all accommodations, meals, transportation and incidentals for half a million visitors to Russia each year (most of them from the East European countries...
...more efficient than current methods. With one pilot plant already set up in Norway, Sterling has contracts to build an $11.9 million disposal plant for the city of Chicago, a second $280,000 plant for Wheeling, W. Va. And it has hopes for many more: surveys show that nearly half the community sewer systems in the U.S. need expanding, repair or complete replacement, to say nothing of the growing problem of industrial waste disposal...
Died. Charles Gulp Burlingham, 100, New York lawyer, civic reformer for half a century who urged pacemaking social legislation (childlabor, minimum-wage laws), headed a group of public-spirited New Yorkers (Fusionists) who successfully backed anti-Tammany Mayoralty Candidates John Purroy Mitchel (1913) and Fiorello La Guardia (1933), though a Democrat crossed party lines to support Tom Dewey for New York attorney general, denounce F.D.R.'s 1937 Supreme Court-packing bill, promoted the careers of some of the leading jurists of his time (Benjamin Cardozo. Learned Hand) in an unflagging effort to improve the quality of the courts, maintained...