Word: idol
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...military junta, then ordered an election for Congressmen who would choose a President. One candidate was a brooding, ulcer-afflicted lawyer named Dumarsais Estime, son of black peasant parents who lived in the voodoo-haunted pine forests near Mount La Selle. His strongly anti-mulatto position made him the idol of the blacks, and won him the election...
Like many a bridegroom, honeymooning Joe DiMaggio, no mean idol himself when he batted for the New York Yankees, went virtually unnoticed last week as Japanese by the thousands swarmed to meet his bride, the former Miss Marilyn Monroe of Hollywood, Calif. At Tokyo's International Airport, Marilyn's fans pressed so thickly about the arriving couple that both were forced to scramble back into the airplane that had brought them, escaping later through its baggage hatch...
...cheery, puckish smile. His family brought him to the U.S. from Russia when he was only a year old, and not long after that, decided that he should be a violinist. In the course of time, Isaac dutifully obliged. Trained wholly in the U.S., he has become the special idol of a big following of younger American musicians; he feels that they have gained hope from his success...
Died. Jorge Negrete, 42, top-drawer singing star of Mexican cowboy films and one of Latin America's favorite cinemactors, fourth husband (since last year) of Mexico's tempestuous Movie Queen Maria Felix; of a liver ailment; in Hollywood. As Mexicans openly mourned Film Idol Negrete's death, his widow declared "unsuitable" a two-engined transport plane sent by Mexico's President Ruiz Cortines to bring his body home from Los Angeles, instead chartered a four-engined American Airlines DC-6, planned an elaborate public funeral in Mexico City...
...Between (London Films; United Artists) features a famous cine-magician, British Director Carol Reed, using the same old saw that worked so well in Odd Man Out, The Third Man and The Fallen Idol. Again, Reed's biting suspense all but slices the moviegoer in half. But this time Director Reed does not quite manage to put him together again...