Word: idol
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Doren. a Columbia University English instructor who inherits the brilliance of the literary Van Doren clan, also enjoys a stranger triumph. Just by being himself, he has enabled a giveaway show, the crassest of lowbrow entertainments, to whip up a doting mass audience for a new kind of TV idol-of all things, an egghead...
Died. Helene Costello, 53. onetime brunette silent-film star (Good Time Charley, Lights of New York), sister of the late John Barrymore's blonde third wife, Cinemactress Dolores Costello, and daughter of oldtime Broadway and Hollywood idol Maurice Costello; of pneumonia, five days after she was committed to the Patton State Hospital for narcotics addiction (destitute and ailing, she had spent much of her time since 1938 in a tuberculosis sanatorium and an actors' home); in Norwalk, Calif...
...scale them, and blow up the German guns. Largely because the five are led by a man so tough and tight-lipped that he would make Bulldog Drummond seem like a pacifist balletomane, they pull off this miraculous stunt. The superman is Captain Keith Mallory, a New Zealand mountaineer, "idol of the cragsmen," hero of legendary exploits in the Cretan resistance...
Whether or not Nasution succeeds in bringing the rebels around, Ali seemed confident that he could keep his government in office. He probably could, so long as he continued to have the backing of exuberant President Sukarno, the idol of Indonesia's masses. With all the recent defections from his coalition, however, Ali will probably need the parliamentary support of the Communist Party, and will almost certainly soon include Communist ministers in his Cabinet-something Sukarno has long desired...
...Ivar Kreuger was both idol and symbol-not, as most men then thought, a Paul Bunyan of finance, but a gross glandular case of surpassing greed. Today, only one tiny match flare from Kreuger's mighty kingdom remains on the financial pages of U.S. newspapers. In mingled hope and irony, Kreuger & Toll 5% debenture bonds, with a $1,000 face value, sell on the N.Y. Stock Exchange for about $40. Before the bond's name appears the tiny letter "q," signifying "in bankruptcy...