Word: stag
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then, out of nowhere came the 39-ft. ketch Staghound. She had been unreported and counted out of the running for days. But race officials had forgotten that in 1953, when she won the race, Stag-hound's owner and skipper, Los Angeles' Ira P. Fulmor, kept radio silence as he searched for favorable winds. Now Fulmor and his navigator, Robert T. Leary, were pulling the same stunt. When they broke silence they were less than 200 miles off Diamond Head, with more than enough of their 98-hour handicap left to take top honors. The times were...
...commonly shot in hotel rooms on a G-string budget. The linking of the two probes was more than Hollywood's outraged trade press could bear in silence. Fumed the Hollywood Reporter: "It is insulting that Estes Kefauver should include the motion-picture industry in an investigation . . . of stag reels and other pornography . . . [This] is obviously nothing more than a pre-presidential publicity campaign conducted at our expense...
...taxis under the El pillars in the night city. And along with the places, Chayefsky and Director Delbert Mann reproduce precisely the life that goes on in them. The whole truth and nothing but the truth about the unattached male is told in one hurtingly funny shot of the stag line at a public dance hall. And the scenes of porch life and corner lounging ("So whatta we gonna do, huh?") are little epigrams of futility...
...Announced, through Press Secretary James C. Hagerty, that the White House will no longer volunteer information about after-business-hours personal guests and social events. President Eisenhower was said to be angry about the rash of news stories and speculation concerning his recent stag dinners and about jealous protests from people who were not invited. The announced guest lists for 38 of the dinners had included the names of 294 businessmen; 81 Administration officials; 51 editors, publishers and writers; 30 educators; 23 Republican Party leaders; 18 scientists, artists and sportsmen; 16 military friends; ten heads of foundations or charities; nine...
...Stag Dinner. The results of the 1954 congressional election helped to convince Ike that his political experience and instincts were just as reliable as those of any politico. He decided that the time had come for him to strike hard for the kind of Republican Party that he wanted. First he called in G.O.P. National Chairman Leonard Hall to get the facts straight about the election. Then, one night in mid-December, he gave a stag dinner for a group of his most trusted advisers from the 1952 campaign: Hall, Vice President Dick Nixon, U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge...