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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with grim interest that I read of the going salaries of the Hollywood horses which daily gallop across our TV screen [Jan. 6]. Some quick arithmetic rewarded me with the knowledge that my husband, now in his sixth year of teaching in a public high school, is earning almost as much as the cow ponies, mustangs and cayuses. My kingdom for a hoss...
...State of the Union message, the President had set himself a tight schedule by promising that he would have reorganization proposals ready for this session of Congress, then appeared to back down in his press conference. Taken aback by the impression of relaxation read into his press-conference statement, the President said in his G.O.P. speech in Chicago last week: "In this I intend to participate personally until the job is done." Three specific reform proposals have already reached his desk: 1) streamline McElroy 's own personal Defense Secretary operation, 2 *) give McElroy power to shift funds between services...
...French Riviera, unwittingly stirred up a spate of rumors that he is in bad shape. A member of his household had explained Sir Winston's absence by pointing out that Churchill was "rather tired." A swift investigation by newsmen showed that Statesman Churchill is energetic enough to paint, read, play gin rummy and eat zestfully, in a packed vacation schedule. Sample lunch: hors d'oeuvres, duck with olives, French pastries, champagne, two cognacs topped off by two cigars. Churchill also drove 22 miles to dine with a Riviera neighbor, Author W. Somerset Maugham, 84, last week. Maugham observed...
Like Gittel Mosca, the girl she plays in Two for the Seesaw, Actress Anne Bancroft speaks pure Bronxese with expansive gestures to match. Like Gittel, she likes bulky sweaters, long black stockings and flat shoes. With this background, she needed just one reading to win the part from Producer Fred Coe. Says Director Arthur Penn: "She didn't even read for me-I was sold on sight. She is Gittel...
...Field. Miss Howard waited patiently for fulfillment of the imperial promises. Instead, one day the Emperor begged his "dear and faithful Harriet" to undertake a special embassy to England. Trustful Miss Howard got as far as Le Havre where, stormbound overnight, she opened a newspaper and read an official announcement of Louis' betrothal to Spain's Eugénie de Montijo, Countess of Teba and sister-in-law of the Duke of Alba. Bounding furiously back to Paris, poor Miss Howard got a second blow. All the locks in her boudoir had been smashed, the contents...