Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...haired Senator Warren ("Maggie") Magnuson, 43, a little late in winding up his vacation, missed the opening of the 81st Congress. At first his office spoke vaguely of "auto trouble." Friends injudiciously added that he had been doing the Seattle nightspots with lush, blonde June Millarde (known professionally in Hollywood pin-up circles as Toni Seven). Heiress to an estimated $3,000,000, Toni is the daughter of Silent Star June Caprice and Director Harry Millarde. While the tabloids were still eating up every new rumor, the Senator appeared in Washington. Had he and Toni been married in the desert...
Like it or not-and some gallerygoers decidedly did not-the painting had authority and punch. In the fast-stepping world of modern art (which turns out an even higher percentage of grade B quickies than Hollywood) it was a supercolossal production. As with all such productions, except those of genius, it inclined to be heavyhanded...
Died. Victor Fleming, 60, top-drawer Hollywood director (Joan of Arc); of a heart attack; near Cottonwood, Ariz. Fleming made his reputation directing Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy and Jean Harlow (Test Pilot, Captains Courageous, Bombshell), won a 1939 Oscar for Gone With the Wind...
...make 600,000 sets, proved a bad guesser; it turned out 800,000, by year's end it was working at a 2,000,000-a-year clip. In its revolutionary sweep, television scared the wits out of radio (radio set production dropped 24% under 1947) and Hollywood (which hastily decided to join rather than try to beat the enemy). It promised industry an entirely new technique in remote control in plants (in New York, a supervisor in a power plant kept tabs on his plant by means of a television screen...
...York Times's Anne O'Hare McCormick does not match Hollywood's picture of the dashing foreign correspondent. Tiny (5 ft. 2 in.), elderly (67) Anne McCormick looks as if she would be more at home sipping tea with heads of state, which she frequently does. But last week Journalist McCormick, in addition to writing her column three times a week, was clambering up & down the mountains of Greece, and doing a workmanlike job of reporting the guerrilla war. Guided by Lieut. General James A. Van Fleet, head of the U.S. Military Mission, she journeyed to mountain...