Word: sid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rating, won his three Emmys for Best Comedian, Best Actor in a Continuing Performance, and the Best Comedy Series. The double-winners were Perry Como as Best Male Singer and Best Master of Ceremonies, and Nanette Fabray (who last week was dropped from next season's Sid Caesar Show because of "contractual difficulties") as Best Comedienne and Best Supporting Actress...
...pretty well fills the Opera House with songs like "I Love Paris" and "C'est Magnifique" which, Symphony Sid advises, swung on the hit parade in eons past. But you really can't see much panties from the second balcony. 8:30 p.m. tonight, 2:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. tomorrow...
High-strung Cinemactress Judy (A Star Is Born) Garland, two days after suing Movie Producer Sid (A Star Is Born) Luff for divorce (TIME, Feb. 13), cooled off, called the calling-off off. Breaking the news to the world in time-honored Hollywood fashion, Judy rang up Veteran Gossipist Louella O. Parsons, confided that Luft was not guilty of "extreme mental cruelty" as charged, added: "I thought something that wasn't true...
...Cinemactress Judy (A Star Is Born) Garland, veteran of two broken marriages, a half-hearted suicide try, long sieges of nervous illness, married Agent-Producer Sid Luft. When it seemed that a star had died, Luft resurrected her, put her back on her feet in big-time vaudeville (audiences at Manhattan's Palace and London's Palladium wept on hearing again her old, nostalgic Over the Rainbow), catapulted her higher than ever in movies and on TV. But somehow the Lufts' rainbow ended in a pot of debts, piled up, according to Luft's friends, because...
...most powerful financial weapon at his command, the Alleghany Corp., a railroad holding company. By purchasing Alleghany in 1937, Young was able to get control of the Chesapeake & Ohio. Later, Alleghany supplied the funds that Young lent to those impecunious oil millionaires, Clint Murchison and Sid Richardson, so that they could buy Central stock to vote in Young's favor in the proxy fight...