Word: loy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...house. Though Blandings was short on sex appeal, it sold more than 300,000 copies and was bought by the movies. Then Hollywood, which thinks sex is so important that it created a Production Code to keep sex out, added a triangle to the plot. The Cary Grant-Myrna Loy movie was advertised with leering posters: "Does Gary suspect the wolf at the door is his best friend...
Ambassador in New Delhi, Loy W. Hen derson: "It is a matter for China and Tibet to decide...
...public life, even less was known until December 1948, when Loy W. Henderson went to Nepal as the first U.S. diplomatic representative to that kingdom. Prime Minister Rana was somewhat embarrassed to learn that Minister Henderson bore a letter from President Truman addressed to the King, in person. After due deliberation, Rana decided that the privilege of getting letters from Harry Truman be added to barley-throwing and being called Sr15. Accordingly, a great durbar was held, and Minister Henderson handed the King his letter. A TIME correspondent who went in with the U.S. mission noticed that the King seemed...
...second book of Blandings is not so homely-timely as the first, but it will probably have just as big a popular success; it is a Book-of-the-Month Club pick for October, and contains almost as many situations for Gary Grant and Myrna Loy as Dream House...
...club, whose members include such bigwigs as Meatpacker Harold Swift, Educator Robert Hutchins, Senator Paul Douglas and Democratic Boss Jake Arvey, put the question in a polite letter to the Trib's Managing Editor J. Loy Maloney. Replied Maloney: "Our readers deserve every scrap of information concerning the principal in a story-whether it be a crime story or a story which is complimentary to the persons mentioned or merely noncommittal on that point. We merely report the facts...