Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...confident that Maria's work will please the critics. M-G-M is gambling heavily that she will also make the grade with the joe who has the entertainment dollar in his pocket. A number of big producers, having put a cautious ear to the Schell, think they hear the clink of coin, and are shipping her scripts and making her offers. Moreover, some of the biggest acting names in the business-Gary Cooper, Gary Grant and others whom she will not name-are angling and wangling for Maria to be their leading lady...
...mother worked as a "tinbasher" in a metal-box factory. He served for a time as a swimming-pool attendant on the Mauretania ("I noticed that most of those rich necks also carried plenty of wrinkles"), spent his layovers in Manhattan plunking coin after coin into the jukeboxes to hear Elvis Presley sing Heartbreak Hotel. When Tommy retired from the sea, he bought a guitar and sang for his meals in a succession of sleazy Soho clubs. British Songwriter Lionel Bart heard him, collaborated with him on Rock with the Caveman and helped turn him into a teen-age National...
...also one of the few occasions when dailies and wire services were able to report a big political story unequivocally and simultaneously. Not until the long wrangle was nearly over did the feuding politicos discover that their fight was on the air. One of the first to hear of the leak was a secretary at G.O.P. headquarters, who trustingly telephoned the press room and asked Indianapolis Newsman Ed Ziegner to relay the news to Matthews. "I did, too," said Ziegner. "After the meeting was over...
...veteran Music Man Willson still acts like a wide-eyed Iowa innocent. He is bowled over by the thumping success of his first musical ("I'm on Cloud 9012"), lavishes credit on the whole company for its "wholesome" approach to the job. "You hear all this business about Broadway sin and sex and smoke-filled rooms," Willson says, "but this company is different. It really is. Our kids weep with joy over the show, that's how much they feel about it. Do you know there hasn't been a gripe, not a bit of hysteria...
...brilliant but pretty much a failure in school. She was skinny, freckled, and given to uncontrollable giggling even in the presence of sorrow. Her special love was her maternal grandmother, a lady so old and fat and on such good terms with the bishop that she was permitted "to hear Mass from her bedroom window." In a devoutly Catholic town ("If grandma would give me the money she spends on Masses, I'd be rich. I don't know if what I'm writing is a sin") Helena went through all the religious forms. Yet she could...