Word: switch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Cecile Sorel, 92, French actress, who reigned as queen of the Comédie Francaise for 32 years (1901-33), made an abrupt switch at 60 to the music halls, where she delighted Paris with her naughty-haughty sketches of Mesdames DuBarry and Pompadour, all the while causing equally spectacular offstage tremors with her collection of celebrated admirers, which included Russia's Nicholas II, Egypt's King Fuad, France's Premier Clemenceau and Marshal Foch, Italy's Mussolini and England's Edward VII; of a heart attack; in Deauville...
...JEAN ARTHUR SHOW (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). For a switch on The Defenders, Lawyers Patricia (Jean Arthur) and Paul (Ron Harper) Marshall play mother-and-son legal eagles. Mickey Rooney is their first client...
...four years ago, Shakhbout stashed it under his bed in his threadbare mud-walled palace. When his bedsprings began bulging, he transferred his fortune to gasoline cans in the palace dungeon. Not until the cans rotted from the humidity and rats began nibbling at his millions did Shakhbout finally switch his hoard to two Abu Dhabi banks...
Tearful on TV. What Britain's press bannered next day was a surprising Cabinet switch: Economics Minister George Brown, 51, the No. 2 man in the Labor Party, changed places with Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart, 59. Brown, a devout believer in economic expansion, had tried to resign four weeks ago when Wilson made the decision that the pound could only be saved by a drastic dose of deflation. Wilson talked him into staying on until the bill was assured of passage. Then Wilson rewarded Brown with the job he had asked for when Labor came to power two years...
...more Beanes had an interest in the company, the title of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane became Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith. This honored Winthrop H. Smith, who had risen from office boy to operating manager. Three years later, in 1959, the firm made an even more significant switch. Anxious to keep its capital stable even if partners died or retired, Merrill Lynch incorporated itself, with McCarthy as president. One of the key stockholders (690 in all) was James E. Thomson, who had been hired in 1924 as a Wall Street runner by Merrill himself...