Word: suites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...phrase "Y'all come.'' Theater marquees proclaimed: "Welcome Back, Jim." Alabama put on its longest (twelve miles) and loudest (126 bands) parade for the U.S.'s tallest (6 ft. 8 in.) governor: Big Jim Folsom, 46, making a comeback after one sorry term, a bastardy suit in 1948 (later dismissed) and other troubles. Once famed as "Kissin' Jim," a whisky-drinking merry widower, he remarried, paraded in an Oldsmobile convertible, with his pretty wife and six children (two by his first wife, four by his second) in another car behind him. Folksy Folsom campaigned...
Cinemactor Sonny Tufts, accused last year of biting a Hollywood dancer in the thigh (she later dropped her $25,000 suit against him), shelled out $600 to settle a brand-new $26,000 claim against...
More Than Beautiful. When the stampede started, Grace was in a bathing suit dutifully splashing around a Japanese bathhouse as Navy Pilot Bill Holden's wife in The Bridges at Toko-Ri (a movie that does little for Grace except establish the fact that she has a better figure than normally meets the eye). At about the same time, Paramount's producer-director team of William Perlberg and George Seaton got word that Jennifer Jones, scheduled to play the title role in their next picture, The Country Girl, had become pregnant. They asked M-G-M to lend...
...about the others (Reynolds aluminum. Dodge. Maxwell House) when I work for them.'' But what the sponsors increasingly crave is a man like Ed Sullivan, who has given blood in San Francisco, landed in a helicopter on Boston Common, and submerged in a Navy diver's suit, all for the glory of Lincoln-Mercury...
...Human problems are the fabric of the legal suit," Stryker stated. He explained that understanding of these problems, and the wit to structure them are learned from the lives of great men, from one's personal experience, and from the pages of history...