Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lap. On the town in later life Mayer was an equally contradictory character-a classic Hollywood hunter who nevertheless "preferred to think of the women he embraced as sacred vessels,-potential mothers, rather than as what they obviously were." With less restraint than Hedda Hopper, the biographer names the vessels Mayer may or may not have embraced. On one of his frequent European talent safaris, reports Crowther, Mayer was completely entranced with an unknown Hungarian actress named Haj-massy; he signed her to a contract as Ilona Massey immediately after a dance floor accident, when a broken shoulder strap "exposed...
...violinist." Around the studios, says Crowther, "it was long suspected that Mayer was after Jeanette MacDonald and Myrna Loy, both of whom had the experience of being indulged and then disfavored by him." And to Luise Rainer, Mayer complained: "Why don't you sit on my lap when we're discussing your contract, the way the other girls...
...flipped onto its back. For six hours the Porsche team of German Cafe Owner Hans Hermann, 31, and veteran Belgian Driver Olivier Gendebien, 36, patiently waited back in the pack. One by one the Ferraris broke down under the strain as the Maserati bellowed to a six-lap lead. But at 6:10 p.m., just as headlights flickered on, Moss eased his low-slung car off the course with a wrecked differential...
Just Two Proposals. Running the last lap of his presidency, Dwight Eisenhower is remarkably robust for a man of 69 who has outlived a heart attack, ileitis and a stroke, and his buoyancy continues to amaze his staff. But he has no notions about capping his presidency with any radical new programs. He is preoccupied with foreign relations-the currents of international communication set in motion by his trips abroad, Charles de Gaulle's visit in April, the summit meeting in May, his trip to the U.S.S.R. in June, and the renewed disarmament negotiations that began last week...
Fighting her way through a blizzard from New York to a Pittsburgh speaking date, Eleanor Roosevelt, a lively 75, first had her plane land in Columbus, then dauntlessly hopped a bus for a 200-mile last lap. After the bus was delayed by a traffic jam and snowdrifts, Pennsylvania state police rescued Mrs. Roosevelt but did not get her to Pittsburgh until hours too late. Losing no more time, she caught a train back to Manhattan. How had she whiled away her time on the snailish bus? "Waiting to get there...