Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Around Shirley, Hollywood was scrambling with Oscar-night fury for tickets for the Khrushchev lunch at the 20th Century-Fox studios. Wives who had not been seen publicly with their husbands for months were demanding that they were just as essential as Mrs. Khrush (only the celebrated married couples, e.g., Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, Dick Powell and June Allyson, got automatic twosome invitations). Things were getting so tough that the host committee, trying to winnow Hollywood's must-be-seen-there thousands down to a sociable 400, flatly decided to discriminate against actors' agents...
...help retrain and relocate workers who lose their jobs through automation. Regarded as a milestone in industrial attempts to soften the impact of work-saving machines on employment, the fund will be operated by a joint management-labor committee with an impartial outsider as chairman. Other packers, such as Oscar Mayer, Cudahy and Hygrade, fell in behind Armour, but Swift and Wilson held out. Swift agreed to the wage raises but balked at new fringe benefits and insisted on wage cuts in seven of its Southern plants to make "costs competitive with other plants in the same areas...
Died. S. Ralph Lazrus, 61, founder (1919), with his brothers Benjamin and Oscar, of Benrus Watch Co., one of the largest U.S. importers of Swiss watches; in Manhattan...
...Angeles televiewers have learned to expect the unexpected from station KCOP-TV, which last year won national attention for its freewheeling program of comment by Pianist Oscar Levant (TIME, May 5, 1958). This week the station popped another big-name surprise on viewers. KCOP-TV's newest star: California's sometime Governor Goodwin J. Knight...
...week, Mexico City's daily Novedades (News) printed what it called "testimony against that type of journalism that ought to disappear." Part of the testimony was a letter lifted from the Cuban embassy last winter after Fidel Castro's bearded revolutionaries toppled the Batista regime. Written by Oscar de la Torre, Batista's Ambassador to Mexico at the time, the letter confirmed what everyone had long suspected-that Aldo Baroni, columnist for Mexico City's daily Excelsior, had taken money to say nice things about Dictator Batista. The ambassador wrote to a presidential aide in Havana...