Word: silents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Working Control. The stockholders' report was silent, however, on another development that is not rumor. Although more than 50% of the voting stock in Curtis is widely distributed, a single block of 32% is held by Mrs. Mary Zimbalist, 85, widow of the late, longtime Journal editor, Edward Bok, and now married to Violinist Efrem Zimbalist. Another block of some 17% is held by the estate of Mrs. Zimbalist's father, the late Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, the former Maine dry-goods clerk who founded the Curtis publishing empire in 1883. (Mrs. Zimbalist is one of seven trustees...
...Torontonians remarked, "Where are the Harvard liberals we've been hearing about?" A neutral Canada between two almost equally immoral powers met shocked Harvard ears and silent mouths which opened only after they had become acquainted with the Canadian hatred of U.S. economic control, and the lack of military service in Canada...
...chun [Dec. 1] was one of the most enlightening articles concerning Red China that I have read. It truly gave an inside picture of the never-ending problems that Communism has bestowed upon this underdeveloped country. It should give the people of America the courage to help win this "silent war" before we too are confronted with the evils of Communism upon our free American soil...
...years had passed since her swooning body draped the bier of Cinema Idol Rudolph Valentino, Polish-born Pola Negri, 63, still held some aspects of her fabled romance with Valentino too sacred to reveal. Interviewed by Columnist Bob Considine at her San Antonio home, the onetime goddess of the silent screen wistfully recalled that "Rudolph loved to make spaghetti and meatballs. He had his own special recipe. I never tire of it, and I will never share with anyone else the secret of his meat sauce...
Hollywood: The Golden Years (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* Gene Kelly narrates an hourlong special about the silent era, from 1903's The Great Train Robbery to 1927's The Jazz Singer...