Word: platinum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forgotten one evening in 1935 when, as the CRIMSON reported, "with Rudy Vallee and his 38-piece ensemble striking the key note in a triumphal rendering of the 'Stein Song', the annual Freshman Smoker took place..." Among the other featured performers on the programs, it seems, were "Ann Graham, platinum girl," "Al Bernie, 14-year-old boy marvel," and an officer of that year's freshman class by the name of F. Skiddy von Stade...
Britain's rising Cinemactress Diana (A Kid for Two Farthings) Dors, 24, and Hollywood's seasoned (44) Ginger Rogers bumped into each other on the French Riviera at a reception in the Aga Khan's villa near Cannes. There for the annual International Film Festival, the platinum pair looked strikingly sisterly - a tribute to Ginger's durable beauty...
...million for !955, up 40% over 1954. For the sixth successive year, production hit a new peak with nickel deliveries of 290 million Ibs., while the company also delivered 263 million Ibs. of copper (worth $100 million), 1.637,000 Ibs. of cobalt (worth $4 million), 445,000 oz. of platinum (worth $20 million), plus smaller amounts of gold, silver, selenium and tellurium...
...changed from sun-cracked desert (summer temperatures range from 100° F. to 120° F.) into one of the biggest irrigated regions on earth, and one of the richest. In this improbable winter garden last week, warming up for a congressional race, were two improbable political candidates: a platinum blonde who fought her way from hideous poverty to fame and riches, and a county judge with blue-black hair and coffee-colored skin who was born in Amritsar, India...
...Leningrad's Evangelical Baptist Church, members of the cast worshiped with 2,000 Russians, mostly elderly women wrapped in shawls, before a big sign reading, GOD is LOVE. Wearing a platinum mink cape, Rhoda Boggs (Lily, the strawberry woman, in the show) sang Sweet Little Jesus Boy. Then, with deep religious feeling, the Negroes sang Christmas carols (Joy to the World) and spirituals (Every Time I Feel the Spirit). By the time they left, many of the Russians were weeping openly. Some said to Moses LaMarr, "God bless you. Merry Christmas. We love you." Not understanding a word, LaMarr...