Word: robert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dublin midnight in Groome's Hotel, a haunt of actors and other free souls, the grog flowed as from a well. Then Cinemale Robert Mitchum, in Ireland to star in an Irish Republican Army epic titled A Terrible Beauty, walked in. The facts were hard to come by, but burly (220 Ibs.) Bob Mitchum hazily allowed that he had been approached by an insistent autograph hound. Heavy-lidded ex-Truck Driver Mitchum scrawled a mild obscenity and got socked squarely in the eye for his unfriendly inscription. The story grew hazier from then on, but most agreed that Mitchum...
This frankly quantitative approach to riding is paying off handsomely this season for Robert Nelson ("Okie") Ussery, 23, who has risen from a dust-eater generally back in the pack of national rankings, as tabulated by the fact-finding Morning Telegraph, until he stands second only to the great Willie Shoemaker in booting home winners (224 v. 221) and total purses ($1,863,049 v. $1,128,474). It matters little to Ussery that he has had to ride 143 more races than Shoemaker to get his total, or that he has never won a major stakes event...
...reason, Columbia has one set of listeners singing along in earnest-its competitors at RCA Victor. By last week, Victor had three imitations in the stores, lavish albums lined with paper that looks like the kind used for $20 bills. Hum and Strum Along with Chet Akins, the Robert Shaw Chorale's Stephen Foster Song Book, and Words and Music with the Ames Brothers include booklets giving not only the words but also piano or ukulele and guitar chords...
Married. Margaret O'Brien, 22, a pig-tailed film star at four (Journey for Margaret), who won hearts with her winsome smile until age made her a Hollywood has-been at 13; and Harold Robert Allen, 24, commercial artist; in Los Angeles...
Lounging in his $120,000 home one Sunday last spring, a tough-faced, balding Indiana builder named James Robert Price decided to get ready for the building boom of the 19603 in the fastest way possible. Though he is the boss of National Homes Corp., the world's biggest maker of prefabricated houses, Jim Price felt that not even National was big enough for what lay ahead. That week he walked into the company's Lafayette, Ind. executive offices, pointed to a map and said: "I want a plant here, here and here...