Word: loy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Gene Markey, 56, screen writer, producer (The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes); and Mrs. Lucille Wright, 55, owner of the Calumet Farm racing stables; he for the fourth time (Nos. 1, 2, 3: Joan Bennett, Hedy Lamarr, Myrna Loy), she for the second (she is the widow of Baking Powder Magnate Warren Wright); in Manhattan...
...BUSINESS). To his visitors, the old man seemed readier last week to make a deal with Britain than he had at any time in the last six months. Yet he still talked about $150 million, with no strings attached, as his price for reopening negotiations. U.S. Ambassador Loy Henderson and British Charge d'Affaires George Middleton did not think Britain ought to pay that much, but they did bombard Washington and London with urgent pleas for some further concessions to Mossadegh. By week's end London was still standing pat on its previous offer (to buy Iranian...
...necessary to show up in Cuernavaca. Most divorce seekers, however, gladly made the trip. With its lush gardens, colonial buildings, year-round swimming pools and air-conditioned cocktail lounges, Cuernavaca is an agreeable place to spend a few days. Among the divorce-bound visitors: Heiress Barbara Hutton, Actress Myrna Loy, Denise Darcel, Paulette Goddard, Faye Emerson...
Belles on Their Toes (20th Century-Fox), a sequel to 1950's successful Cheaper by the Dozen* is, like most follow-ups, somewhat of a letdown. Present once more are Efficiency Expert Lillian Gilbreth (Myrna Loy) and her twelve lovable but strenuous children. The rambling scenario, in a flashback to the Pierce-Arrow and Charleston days of the '20s, focuses on the girls of the family...
...past the police line, shoving the dignitaries perilously close to the still-whirling propellers. The scene around the plane's unopened door became a madhouse of shouting ministers and mullahs. One Majlis leader was whacked across the mouth with a large wet floral wreath. Newly appointed U.S. Ambassador Loy Henderson, out to say hello to Mossadegh, was caught in the mob at the airport, had his pockets picked (his wallet was later returned intact), but never got to speak to the pallidly beaming Premier...