Word: smashed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...screen test, and within a few months she was on her way to Hollywood as a "starlet" at $50 a week. "It never dawned on me," she says, "that I wasn't going to be a smash right away." Apparently it never dawned on anyone to reward her discoverer: Talent Scout Duhan is now a New York City...
...oblige a friend, he helped Mercury Records get a big backlog of pop songs recorded, found he liked the work. In a short time, as repertory boss for Mercury, he had Vic Damone and Frankie Laine turning out smash hits, topped 1,000,000 copies apiece with such numbers as Cry of the Wild Goose, Mule Train, and Lucky Old Sun. Then came the move to the bigger job at Columbia...
...passion for food is only one of Mario's freely indulged appetites. "All my life I liked fun," he explodes. "I'm young and alive. I like people with heart. Even today when people get gloomy around me, I swear in high C and smash a glass against the wall and say, 'Let's get going! You're fracturing me with this misery.' " Once, in a moment of high spirits, he dispelled all the misery in the immediate vicinity by bursting out of his studio dressing room, clad only in an athletic supporter...
...copilot, a mechanic, two interpreters, an Eighth Army photographer. No allied newsman went to Kaesong. A large throng of U.S. and other U.N. reporters were left behind at Munsan. If the negotiators ran into foul play (which was not seriously expected), allied ground forces around Munsan were ready to smash forward...
...duty as a photographer in Korea, and was back in New York last winter when the news came in that the 1st Marine Division was cut off near the Changjin Reservoir. Duncan's point in pleading to go back to the Marines: no enemy outfit anywhere could smash a Marine division, and so the assignment was perfectly safe. He flew in to join the Marines, and was the only newsman to walk out with them in their bitter, fighting withdrawal...