Word: stinting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Polly had been working for that performance ever since, back in 1955, a grey-haired lady approached her, after she finished a singing stint in the glittery Persian Room of Manhattan's Hotel Plaza, and said that Polly reminded her of Helen Morgan. Polly's admirer turned out to be Lulu Morgan, Helen's mother. Polly promptly bought the TV rights to Helen's life story, sold them at cost ($10,000) to CBS with the help of Freddie Fields, a Music Corp. of America vice president who is Polly's agent and husband. Polly...
Although his only previous stint as a strictly political cartoonist was with the tabloid New York Star (nee PM), which died after seven fitful months in 1949, Mauldin has always honed an edge on his best drawings, considers his war cartoons as being "95% editorial." Says Mauldin: "The Post-Dispatch has a strong tradition of independence for its staff. I have a reputation for raising hell in cartoons, and there are not many newspapers that will stand still for that...
...memory whetted by the news that Mamie Eisenhower had retreated into the beauty-rejuvenating cloisters of Arizona's "Maine Chance" (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Musicomedienne Beatrice Lillie, 59, mused on her own stint in the rise-at-7:30, lights-out-at-10:30 Elizabeth Arden camp: "Miss Separate Table, that was me. Everyone else was dieting. I was trying to put on some weight." Then with gusto Bea recalled: "One night some of us-and I won't say which-sneaked out the window, past the guards and rushed into Phoenix. There was a loud bar there...
...abortive attempt to dump Vice President Richard Nixon from the Republican ticket in 1956, and his continued sniping at State Secretary John Foster Dulles' policy on disarmament negotiations withRussia (TIME, Jan. 30). Moving to Pennsylvania, where he has maintained voting residence since his 3½-year stint as president of the University of Pennsylvania, Stassen figures to be just about as welcome as he was in Washington. Said Pennsylvania's Republican Chairman George Bloom on hearing of the Childe Harold's gubernatorial intentions: "Anywhere that I haye had any contact with Republicans in Pennsylvania, I have found...
...cart around fraternity row every night. He graduated ('27) with a business administration degree, wrote advertising copy for three years before joining General Electric. In 1939 Johnson left G.E., went to Schick, Inc. under Cordiner. He returned to G.E. in 1944 after a two-year stint with the War Production Board, became a vice president in 1948. Today, with his wife Ellen and daughter Kristine, 11, Johnson lives in suburban Stamford, Conn., commutes to a 41st-floor office in Manhattan, spends spare moments painting oils and watercolors...