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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pink Champagne. Marilyn's publicity clippings began to arrive in bales. Her next three pictures (Niagara, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, How to Marry a Millionaire) were box-office blockbusters. At the end of 1953, according to the trade press, she had made more money for her studio than any other actress in Hollywood. She also won the Photoplay Award as the year's most popular actress...
...choice beef-marbled, dark red and well-aged. Without price tags or grade stamps to guide them, more than two-thirds picked the poorer beef. Though such tests cause cowmen to snort contemptuously about women shoppers and "supermarket cattle," they have also caused them to worry. If women shoppers prefer the poorer grades that look fresher and leaner, then cattlemen will breed lean meat...
...Congressional investigation, on the other hand, need not precipitate such splits if it cooperates with AFL-CIO and does not prefer exposes to cautious but powerful press releases. In such a manner, criminal elements in unions would be faced with reprisals from the parent organization and with legal action from the government. But cooperation between government and labor must be accompanied by a determined stand on the part of businessmen to deal honestly with honest unions. "Stand up to the hoodlums!" advised New York Attorney General Jacob Javits. If business would refuse to pay kick-backs and more important, report...
...blandly ignored or actively disregarded at the local level. The Roman Catholic Church, taking the unequivocal position that segregation is a continuing offense against Christian morality, has been the only church in the South to take open steps to enforce its position. But many Catholic priests, like Protestant ministers, prefer to move slowly, and Southern Catholics are not all taking kindly to their church's position. In New Orleans, where Archbishop Joseph Francis Rummel has threatened to invoke the extreme power of excommunication to stem Catholic opposition to integration, newspaper ads appeared recently to announce a state-chartered Association...
...morning paper, the Post makes its impact on official Washington at both the right place and the right time-in the pause before the daily scurry through the bureaucratic and political brambles. "Of all the American newspapers," Britain's Lord Northcliffe (London Daily Mail) once said, "I would prefer to own the Washington Post because it reaches the breakfast tables of the members of Congress...