Word: kerrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tony scrambled into show business on his own. He finished 24th in a class of 25 at the Browne & Nichols school, later thumbed his way to Hollywood, got a screen test, ended up playing in The Actress with Jean Simmons. In 1954 he took over from John Kerr as the troubled adolescent in Broadway's Tea and Sympathy...
More for Less. As in many another industry, oilmen have also found that it is costing more and more to produce less and less, and are looking for ways to cut expenses. Says Kerr-McGee Oil Industries President Dean McGee: "Offshore drilling was a natural to come first. When you are trying to cut costs, the most expensive operation that is giving you the least return is where you begin...
...Kerr's Law, which states in essence: all the houses you can afford to buy are depressing...
...Author Kerr goes on to spoof interior decorating, domestic pets, diets and operations. It's a pity that she does less of what she does best, literary parodies. She confines herself to a hilarious take-off on the morose moppet, Franchise Sagan (TIME, Dec. 10, 1956) and an equally funny spoof of Mickey Spillane called "Don Brown's Body." Sample: "I was going into Longchamps when this tomato waltzes by. She was a tomato surprise. A round white face with yellow hair poured over it like chicken gravy on mashed potatoes. Her raccoon coat was tight...
...right place for a laugh, as Author Kerr sees it, is anywhere, even the index. She has concocted a mock-erudite one with such items as: "Fifth, Beethoven's" and "Idiot, tale told by a." The proper cross references for Please Don't Eat the Daisies might be "Rye Krisp, thinner than," but, at the same time, "Monkeys, more fun than a barrel...