Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with grim interest that I read of the going salaries of the Hollywood horses which daily gallop across our TV screen [Jan. 6]. Some quick arithmetic rewarded me with the knowledge that my husband, now in his sixth year of teaching in a public high school, is earning almost as much as the cow ponies, mustangs and cayuses. My kingdom for a hoss...
...effectiveness among Protestants and Jews. Examples: Father James B. Lloyd, 35, director of the New York Information Center, is the son of a Jewish father and a Catholic mother, both of them oldtime vaudeville headliners; Father Eugene Burke, professor of dogmatic theology at their Washington seminary, is a former Hollywood child actor...
20TH CENTURY-FOX, Hollywood's second biggest moviemaker, will soon go into record business, put its stable of stars (Pat Boone, Elvis Presley, et al.) on its own records to bolster sagging film sales...
...used-and-new Dodge. Pontiac and Plymouth car lots in Compton. Pasadena, Long Beach and Hollywood, Caruso refined cheating, double-dealing and intimidation into such a formalized art that he actually conducted regular classroom sessions to teach his salesmen (nine of whom got lighter sentences) how to go about it. Salesmen were instructed to get customers to sign blank contracts, later cut the trade-in allowance and raise the new car price they wrote in on the contract. They were taught to spout figures at a torrential rate to confuse the buyer, and to never put a deal in writing...
...celluloid rubble of Novelist Hayes's Hollywood ("to see or be seen ... to eat or be eaten") seems unreal. And his people, though carefully and competently labeled, are also carefully unexplored, as if he were afraid that the characters, if given life, would twist out of control. But Hayes is tellingly accurate about the emotions of bored bed partners who do not even 'like each other, and sometimes eloquent about the vacant longings of pretty, light-dazzled girls: "If they expected her to resist, or any of the girls like her, then it would have been wiser...