Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...month visit with their father. Distantly, she called him "Signor Rossellini." He baked her in a Latin gaze. "Ingrid," he said, "call me Roberto." With that, her reserve melted into tears. When the show was over, Judge Giovanni Salemi agreed to let her keep the children. She could pick them up next month...
Tinker to Evers to Chance. In Chicago, transit authority detectives spied Robert Hinton picking a pocket at a crowded bus stop, held off long enough to let Franklin Palmer pick Hinton's pocket, then arrested both...
...Hold at Last. By 1949 Lola was back in Hollywood, still waiting for recognition. She suffered from insomnia, and she was beginning to pick up a reputation as an oddball. "I always liked to do kookie things," she insists, but now, with two unsuccessful marriages and years of unimportant roles behind her, she feels as if she is taking hold. Peter Gunn gave her steady work (though she still lives on vitamin shots and fights insomnia), and the chance to sing gave her a new career. Today, when she walks her dog around her modest Encino home, lonely Lola...
Burns belongs to a growing group of U.S. managers who got their training in an almost unexcelled school of versatility: the management-consultant firm. Born in Watertown, Mass., he has made a career of versatility. He swung a pick in a highway gang, earned a doctorate in metallurgy at Harvard ('34), taught in universities (Harvard, Lehigh) before joining Republic Steel as a laborer (wages: 59? an hour). In 1941, having moved up to become boss of Republic's wiremaking division at $12,000 a year, he turned down an offer of twice that and accepted the bid that...
Burns seizes every chance to pick a brain or dissect an idea, even when he is with his wife or son or daughter. He scribbles his ideas on memo sheets or matchbooks, empties them out of his pockets in the morning, when his secretary fires them off to RCA executives. On the way from his twelve-room stone house in Greenwich. Conn, to his antique-studded office on the 53rd floor of Manhattan's RCA Building, he usually takes along an RCA executive for a back-seat conference in his chauffeur-driven Cadillac. Visiting the U.S. exhibit in Moscow...