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...operation, ubiquitous President John B. O'Connor will have little opportunity to keep his feet on the ground. Said O'Connor last week: "I'll continue to spend most of my time in an airplane. You can't run this kind of company from a swivel chair in Dallas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Drilling for Size | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

...were the Yankees overloaded with apple-cheeked youth. Without Manager Charles Dillon Stengel, a swivel-tongued seer of 65, the Yankees would be just another ball club. Then there was Outfielder Hank Bauer, a hardened old pro at 34, and a veteran of six series. Catcher Yogi Berra was only 31, but already a squat relic of more series (seven) than any other player on either team. There was also a durable outfielder of 40 summers named Enos Bradsher Slaughter. Back in mid-August, old Case Stengel had squinted into the future and decided that once his Yanks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Antique Series | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

Silent on her peak outside London town, blonde, swivel-hipped Marilyn Monroe, who is scheduled to meet Queen Elizabeth at the annual "command performance" later this month, did not seem displeased when told that M-G-M is "very interested" in having her star in the studio's planned film version of Feodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. Although nobody would take Marilyn seriously when she said a couple of years ago that she wanted to play Grushenka,*M-G-M said last week, "The part is hers, if she doesn't want half the studio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 8, 1956 | 10/8/1956 | See Source »

...London, where she is working on the film version of The Sleeping Prince with Actor-Director Laurence Olivier, blonde, swivel-hipped Marilyn Monroe dashed out for a bit of shopping in Regent Street and virtually incited to riot again. Passers-by recognized her as she stepped out of her car, and traffic was jammed to a dead stop until a platoon of bobbies appeared to disperse the crowds. Earlier, Marilyn's Pulitzer-Prizewinning husband, Playwright Arthur Miller (whom Marilyn now calls "popsie-wopsie," while he calls her "poopsie-woopsie"), said that he would interrupt his honeymoon with Marilyn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 3, 1956 | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

...those embarrassing incidents which, whether accidental or calculated, always make surefire headlines, Sweden's voluptuous Cinemactress Anita (Blood Alley) Ekberg writhed her swivel-hipped way across the crowded foyer of a posh London hotel, suddenly found her strapless, skinlike gown at half mast when its key stitches gave way. Reported a lady eyewitness: "Under it was-just Anita." With a pretty display of shocked modesty, Anita repaired to an anteroom for repairs, cooed later: "I like tight dresses, but after this, well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 16, 1956 | 1/16/1956 | See Source »

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