Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Actress Audrey (Roman Holiday) Hepburn confessed her surprise at being in the movies at all: "I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine. I've had a complex all my life about being definitely ugly...
Templeton filled out Orwell's spare dialogue in Nineteen Eighty-Four and focused, for dramatic purposes, on the torment of Oceania's petty bureaucrat, Winston Smith, who helps make history toe the party line in the Ministry of Truth. Actor Eddie (Roman Holiday) Albert, who has often skillfully played Hollywood's average man, portrayed Smith's crimethinking (dangerous thoughts) and search for ownlife (individualism). His short-lived love affair with Julia, the rebellious Anti-Sex Leaguer (Norma Crane), was carried on against a background of omnipresent two-way telescreens and the horrible, bloated face...
DISTILLERS, who once bottled only their premium brands in decanters, are stampeding to get their lower-priced whiskies into decanters in time for the holiday trade. Schenley, first to bottle a blended whisky in decanters, has already had a 400% pickup in fall sales to wholesalers. But other distillers are close behind: Owens-Illinois Glass Co. is now making decanters for eight distillers v. only two last year...
...that a good many famed singers made their U.S. opera bows in San Francisco, e.g., Italian Soprano Renata Tebaldi, Greek Contralto Elena Nikolaidi, Italian Tenor Mario Del Monaco. Some Merola discoveries resulted from his travels. Others were noted by diligent San Franciscans who are glad to spend as much holiday time in Salzburg and Bayreuth as in London and Paris...
...Roman Holiday. Newcomer Audrey Hepburn goes on a hilarious tour of Rome with Gregory Peck and Eddie Albert, as Director William Wyler adds some new twists to a popular old comedy-romance plot (TIME, Sept...