Word: hoppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Actress Jessica Tandy once went to Marlon's dressing room with a powerful woman who, as everybody in the entertainment business knows, likes to think of herself as still quite youthful-looking. Said Marlon to Jessica in his silkiest tone: "Ah, this must be your mother." Columnist Hedda Hopper also went to interview him. "She talked for half an hour solid," says a Hollywood reporter, "and in all that time Marlon gave exactly one and a half grunts." He now calls Hedda "The One with the Hat," and Louella Parsons "The Fat One." The two influential lady writers naturally...
...describe nature rather than to repeat or surpass another man's picture, do not fit this theory. The U.S. has been rich in such artists, as it has been poor in art traditions. Even now, with objective painting on the wane every where, America has its Edward Hopper and Charles Burchfield...
Pulling another rider out of the brimming hopper, the filibusterers won the next skirmish. Colorado Democrat Edwin Johnson pressed for a vote on a rider that would enable the AEC to build nuclear reactors for commercial power production. It carried...
...Manhattan, George Hopper, a meat packer from East St. Louis, Ill., hopped into the Hudson River, arms handcuffed behind him, and towed a canoe and two passengers six miles (swimming upstream) to the Jersey shore. Motive: he hoped to earn himself an invitation for a paid TV appearance to help pay for "surgery" for his two sons...
...year) were slipping. The company started a paid-vacation contest for division managers, then threw in the quiz to "spice up the program." The names of salesmen's wives who wish to enter the contest are written on cards, and each week four cards are drawn from a hopper. President Hugh Clary, or some other executive, then phones the wife and asks her how much business her husband has brought in so far that month. If she knows, she gets a free appliance (electric coffeemaker, toaster, broiler, etc.). So far, 17 wives have been called, and every...