Word: rand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first day he landed at the Dallas airport from New York last September, shock-haired, strapping (6 ft. 2 in., 185 lbs.) Walter Hendl slapped on a cowboy Stetson and accepted appointment as an honorary deputy sheriff. In the next few days he lunched with Fan Dancer Sally Rand at the Junior Chamber of Commerce, judged a beauty contest, went to a Neiman-Marcus fashion show, played jazz piano for the girls at a local prep school and lunched with the Rotarians. For jovial New Jersey-born Hendl, it was all part of his new job as conductor...
Died. Frank Chambless Rand, 73, onetime president (1916-30) and board chairman (since 1930) of International Shoe Co., biggest in the U.S. (it makes more than 11% of all U.S. shoes); in St. Louis...
Shortly after this, they decided to give up, they said. Lelandais' parents are arriving in New York from France this weekend, Davis' siste rand his Army game date are due in Cambridge today, and the quartet had less than $40 between them...
...Fountainhead (Warner), as titles go, is a stunning understatement. Based on the bestselling novel by Ayn Rand, who also wrote the screenplay, it is actually a geyser of emotional sounds and ideologically, signifying only that Author Rand-and possibly Hollywood-are uneasy about the state of the world...
...Novelist Rand sees it, the creative individual (Gary Cooper as a daring young architect) is threatened with extinction by the collective herd (Raymond Massey and Robert Douglas as the publisher and architecture critic of a powerful New York newspaper). Though photographed as if it were a titanic struggle between conflicting principles, what follows turns out to be a tussle between neurotic pinheads. At one point. Cooper dynamites several blocks worth of a housing project to assert his artistic integrity. Blowing hot & cold on Cooper's ambitions, Massey finally puts a bullet through his own head after commissioning Cooper...