Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Manhattan gossipists worked hard to fill the gaps made in their columns by the departure for Hollywood of robustious (40-18-35½) Actress Jayne (Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?) Mansfield. With a truffle hound's nose for publicity, Jayne quickly set filmland agog by flapping her charms at anyone who could rush her into print or picture. Lunching with the New York Herald Tribune's Hollywood Legman Joe Hyams, Jayne, bubbling over her first film stardom ("Everybody calls me Miss Mansfield") in a movie to be released under the titillating title of The Girl...
...judge who pointed out that baseball stadiums and theaters have long violated the Sabbath with impunity. In many cities where Sunday-closing ordinances are enforced, merchants sidestep the law by selling from branches outside city limits. Rather than turn away customers, businessmen in such cities as Newark and Little Rock, Ark. have repeatedly paid fines and continued to cater to Sunday trade...
...Merrill saw the 1929 crash coming, urged customers to put their financial houses in order. When the crash came, some of Merrill Lynch's customers went broke, but others, who had taken Charlie Merrill's advice, saved an estimated $6,000,000. Merrill's firm was rock solid. Yet Merrill was so depressed by the sorry state of the industry that he transferred much of his capital and customers to E. A. Pierce, one of the biggest wire houses, for nearly ten years restricted himself to piling up a fortune (once estimated at well over...
...Liked "Rock and Roll" Article...
...scroll said, ". . . laughter, in time, can form the basis for a better mutual understanding." The editors of Krokodil thought that a recent article decrying "Rock and Roll" was especially good as it obviously decried "Art for Art's sake." This, they added, is "progressive." Lampoon poetry was hailed by the Soviets for its "realistic attitude...