Word: jolt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...announcement by Oilman James Wymore of Salina, Kans. gave shock-resistant Hollywood a jolt: his daughter, Cinestarlet Patrice, 23, was going to marry her leading man Errol Flynn, 41, who has been saying for quite a while that he would marry Rumanian Princess Irene ("The Geek") Ghica, 20. Flynn, now in the midst of a court squabble over alimony payments to first wife Lili Damita, had a characteristically playful comment to make on Patrice, who is very nearsighted: "All I'll have to do is hide her glasses and she'll never be able to find...
Lloyd Clark had been headmaster of Kiskiminetas Springs School in Saltsburg, Pa. for only a few months when he got the jolt. It came in a casual conversation with Cornell's President Edmund Day at the Kiski-Cornell freshmen football game...
...belonging to Winston Churchill, won first prize (?10) at the Kent county agricultural show. Later in the week Winnie proved his luck again when the express train he was riding in plowed into a loaded hay elevator at 76 m.p.h., gave him and the other passengers only a momentary jolt...
...bull market got its hardest jolt in five months. In three days last week the Dow-Jones industrial average dropped from its so-year peak of 228.38 to 222.44, just about where it was before the fast climb a fortnight ago. Most traders thought the slump a healthy sign, since it failed to produce any heavy selling. In fact, the volume of trading dropped off each day the market fell. Since the rest of the economy was still running at high speed, the bulls were still unworried...
Plotting & Prayers. Within the fortnight, U.S. moviegoers will see the jolt her career has gotten: MGM's Annie Get Your Gun, 1950's biggest, costliest ($3,200,000) musical. The star: Betty Hutton. As something extra, Actress Hutton will pop up as co-star with Fred Astaire this summer in another brightly colored song & dance film, Paramount's Let's Dance. Though Hollywood's box office has been slumping, there are still surefire receipts in a lavish Technicolored musical-and not enough surefire cinemusical stars to go around. As the cinemusical girl of 1950, Betty...