Word: oed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...razzle-dazzle sales tactics of its President Rojtman, 40. Rojtman, who merged his American Tractor Corp. with Case in January 1957, demonstrated his sales flair last fall with a $1,000,000 circus. He airlifted nearly 4,000 farmers and dealers to Phoenix, Ariz, to unveil the "1960 Case-O-Matic Line," lashed his tractors stern to stern with competitors' models to show how they could outpull them. All told, Rojtman wrote up $164 million in orders, signed up 300 new dealers...
Born. To Marlon Brando, 34, cinemactor, and India-born Cinemactress Anna Kashfi, 23, who denies strong evidence that she was little Joanie O'Callaghan when her father, an Irish employee of the Bengal-Nagpur Railway, enrolled her in school in Darjeeling: their first child, a son; in Los Angeles. Name: Christian...
...North Frederick (20th Century-Fox). Sex is the fire of life to Author John O'Hara, and through the fire his characters must pass to their destruction or salvation. But sex, at the rate O'Hara burns, is way too hot for the average U.S. movie exhibitor to handle; and so the producers of this picture, based on O'Hara's latest bestseller (TIME, Nov. 28, 1955), have carefully put out the fire with a steady stream of eyewash -most of it, as a matter of fact, squeezed out of the soggier sections of the book...
...town in Pennsylvania, "a gentleman in a world that has no use for gentlemen." Decent, limited, middleaged, he is as set in his honorable ways as any samurai in his Bushido. and step by inevitable step the story describes how he is driven to commit what might be called O'Hara-kiri -he drinks himself to death...
After that, is there anything left for Joe Chapin? O'Hara being O'Hara, there is sex, and Joe has it with his daughter's roommate (Suzy Parker) when he goes to New York on a business trip. And after sex? A little whisky fills the aching void, and then a little more...