Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...BARONDES Hollywood, Calif. ' Sir: I nominate, not for Man of the Year but for man of the era, Albert Schweitzer. He has taught us anew that man does indeed live by the spirit, and that we can all live purposeful lives in an age which Spengler, Toynbee and Sorokin have characterized as decadent...
...Tennessee cotton mill; his name got in the papers in a lawsuit over a $750,000 loan made to him by a New York businessman. It also turned up on the expense accounts of Howard Hughes' Rabelaisian contact man Johnny Meyer for parties in Palm Springs, Hollywood and Manhattan, complete with $100 notations for feminine "entertainment." (Krug indignantly called Meyer's accounts a "swindle...
...heard him sing the way he sang at Manhattan's St. Vincent Ferrer's school? Why should a kid with his talents stew through fourth grade, take Skippy and Lady out for their walks every night and waste away his life in a 66th Street flat-when Hollywood was right there, waiting...
Three times-by foot, subway and train -Artie Biggs, a freckle-faced eleven-year-old, had started out for Hollywood, only to be turned back. Once he got as far as Brewster, N.Y., 52 miles from home in the wrong direction, before the cops caught him. One morning last week the call came again, loud and clear. Artie dialed the Trans World Airline counter at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, told them he was going to Hollywood to make a picture and wanted a reservation. Yes, he said, the afternoon Constellation that stopped at Pittsburgh and St. Louis would...
This was the deadly sin, punishable by Hollywood's defender of the faith, Louella O. Parsons. Wrote Louella last week in her Hearst gossip column: "This is the first time I have ever publicly spanked Judy, but I can't understand her attitude after all that has been done...