Word: rungs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best-dressed woman in the world, and for the first time welcomed into its top twelve her sister. Princess Stanislas Radziwill, and her Palm Beach-Manhattan shopping consort, Mrs. Charles Wrightsman. Among repeaters from last year was Thailand's Queen Sirikit, who moved a lovely leg up a rung toward the poll's Fashion Hall of Fame-the Olympus of three-time win ners entered last week by boyishly elegant Actress Audrey Hepburn and Mrs. Norman Winston, the part Cherokee Indian, Paris-based wife of the international real estate dealer...
...shopkeepers figured that the Christmas rush accounted for 25% of their annual gross. New York City stores reckoned it at 30%. Said a Salt Lake City jeweler: "If somebody abolished Christmas, I'd go out of business." All told, the nation's merchants will have rung up better than $5 billion in sales before the last tyke has crawled, all goose flesh, into bed on Christmas...
...hearts of millions that King of Kings will undoubtedly be filling Hollywood's collection plates for months to come. Scheduled for reserved-seat. pre-Christmas release at fancy prices ($1.50-$3.50 on Broadway), the film will soon be playing in 26 cities from Los Angeles to Rome, has rung up an advance sale of about $600,000-bigger than...
...animated, Robert Morse never merely speaks lines. He dives after an ordinary joke with a twisting one-and-a-half gainer and makes it look like a pearl. With his mischievous small-boy charm, he is the most ingratiating eager beaver who ever gnawed through someone else's rung on the ladder of success...
Natalie did not reach the top rung in one leap: she has been in films for nearly 20 years. Most of her credits are best forgotten, but there were enough big hits -Miracle on 34th Street, Rebel Without a Cause, Marjorie Morningstar-to keep her career moving upward. It began in Santa Rosa, Calif., when four-year-old Natalie-then Natasha Gurdin-went with her Russian-immigrant mother to watch the filming of Happyland. Even then she was a raving beauty, and Director Irving Pichel plucked her out of the crowd to give her a bit part. In her next...