Word: latex
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Perky Warren? To last week's off-Broadway audience he was only a nice old Canadian eccentric who likes people, but Toronto's Bay Street financiers know him as the 62-year-old onetime president of Gutta Percha & Rubber, Ltd., a latex prince descended from some of the red, white and bluest blood in North America; e.g., Priscilla Mullins' John Alden, Connecticut's Revolutionary Governor Jonathan Trumbull. At home in Toronto, his closest companions are his 13-year-old beagle Tobey and his solicitors, Ricketts, Farley & Lowndes...
...make Peter Ustinov's Johnson the goutiest, twitchingest, most scarred and scrofulous hulk of a man ever to wobble across the TV screen. It took 36-year-old British Actor Ustinov two hours to glue down his beard, stuff himself with padding, and secure the five-piece foam latex mask that had been modeled on Sir Joshua Reynolds' celebrated portrait of Johnson. Ustinov joked that it was made of marzipan, and "the wonderful thing is you can eat it after the show." Actually, he confessed later, "it smelled like a rancid omelet." The makeup nicely underscored Boswell...
...Duke of Edinburgh, reported London's Evening Standard, has bloomed as an inventor. His brain child: a 58-ft. tablecloth containing "hundreds of yards of wire sandwiched between layers of felt and latex." When plugged in, the electrified tablecloth, spread over the royal board in the royal yacht Britannia, will provide power for electric candelabra placed anywhere upon...
...young Georgian bandit named Djugashvili, alias Koba, alias Stalin, he owed his future. His own underground alias was derived from molot, meaning hammer. But though he was as methodical and repetitive as a foundry trip hammer, the stuff of his soul was not steel, but the durable latex of a heavy-handed rubber stamp. "The best filing, clerk in Russia," Lenin had said. "You are mediocrity incarnate," shouted Trotsky...
...contingent basis, i.e., stock had been set aside for him, provided that he could figure out how to satisfy the Justice Department and become an open partner. This might be done by dividing Stanley Warner Corp. into two parts, with Si Fabian taking its nontheater holdings, including International Latex, which it bought two years...