Word: helens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...large silver screen with the small grey one, Hollywood Producer Jerry (Peyton Place) Wald last week threatened what may become known as the Great Undershirt Riposte. Wald was agitated by TV's "unspeakable hijacking." Examples: last year Playhouse go produced The Helen Morgan Story just in time to capitalize on Warner Brothers' Helen Morgan Story, and this month TV Producer David Susskind announced plans for a $400,000 quickie that would beat the release of MGM's $12.5 million Ben Hur. Said Wald: Hollywood ought to fight back with movies that "in a tasteful manner will show...
During their 19 years as professional partners, Charlie Goren, 57, and Helen Sobel, 48, have copped just about every top bridge trophy at one time or another. Back in 1942 they took the Life Masters cup, but it has eluded them ever since. Last week, despite a brisk start, they lagged in ninth place at the end of the third round (each round consists of 26 deals). On the fourth and final round, they encountered this deal (North-South vulnerable...
Born. To Enos ("Country") Slaughter, 42, tobacco-chewing, knuckle-bald New York Yankee outfielder whose dependable pinch-hitting recalls a long, starring career with the St. Louis Cardinals (1938-53), and Helen Spiker Slaughter, 28, onetime airline stewardess: their second child, second daughter (he has a son by one of four earlier marriages); in Ridgewood, N.J. Name: Sharon Lynn...
...wool Marxists. Lifelong Communist Arthur Horner, bespectacled boss of the 730,000-man National Union of Mineworkers, phoned up the right-wing Daily Express to announce that he was "shocked and horrified" at this "needless folly." (He remains a Communist, apparently disturbed only by inept tactics.) In Scotland Mrs. Helen Wolff, sister of top British Communist John Gollan, quit the party in disgust. And to the surprise of one and all, the Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, "Red Dean" of Canterbury, opened his eyes long enough to announce that "the Dean regrets the executions...
Citation: "As Helen of Troy, renowned sister of Castor and Pollux, proved the unwisdom of underestimating the powers of woman, so Dr. Wu . . . has richly earned the right to be called the foremost female experimental physicist...