Word: sensationalize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sweden's luscious (36-23-36) Hillevi Rombin, 21, more renowned as Miss Universe, caused a small sensation in Hollywood by quietly undulating into an airline ticket office and booking a oneway passage to Stockholm. Signed by Universal-International studios at $250 a week, Hillevi had just been handed...
Lawyer's Promise. At this point, Faure, one of France's best lawyers, was at his most skillful. France "does not intend to accede to any threat, intimidation or terrorism," said Faure ringingly, and added in the next breath that France was nevertheless "attached to a policy of...
25. Last week Christian Dior was talking up his newest alphabetical sensation-the Y-line-and hoped it would do better than last year's H-line, which deflated the bosom and was in turn a bust at the box office. Proclaimed Dior: "I have emphasized the bosom. My...
¶ At Disneyland, the gigantic amusement park in Anaheim, Calif., scheduled to open in mid-July, Walt Disney will have a theater for a 360° screen, which he confidently expects represents the final step in evolution of the wide screen. Last week Disney gave the press a peek at...
Physicians attending the joint annual meeting of the British and Canadian Medical Associations in Toronto last week hardly expected to hear a lecture on miracles, and certainly not one from a fellow scientist. But Dr. John R. Brobeck, 41, professor of physiology at the University of Pennsylvania, surprised a group...