Word: takings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Take It or Leave It (Sun. 10 p.m., NBC). Quiz show returns with new quizmaster: Eddie Cantor...
...while a secretly appointed Royal Commission dug up the facts. St. Laurent's political opponents rapped him hard for carrying out the spy probe under a secret order in council. Said St. Laurent later: "I was satisfied it was the right thing to do and I was prepared to take the consequences...
...Cannes, while his great & good friend, Hollywood's Merle Oberon, 38, watched his private plane take off for Venice, wealthy Italian Count Giorgio Cini, 30, was killed in a crash when he flew low to buzz the airstrip. Cinemactress Oberon cried: "My life is finished. There's no point in going...
...dozens of other bouquets around the room were a tribute to Wilson's first half-century in what G.E. calls its "family." Fifty years ago, at the age of twelve, young Charlie Wilson had come out of the slums of Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen to take a $3-a-week office boy's job with a company that later became part of G.E. Now it was Wilson's turn to get the same small, 50-year button that, as president, he had pinned on so many other G.E. oldtimers. Last week, at a small...
...their crusade against the Arabs and the British, may be the heroes of a new rash of fictional melodramas. In this slow stalking of the Palestine situation, the British are pictured as fatuous sports, the Arabs as a colorfully comic tribe of three-occasionally seen in the background taking a hefty spit at a Jewish armored truck-and the Jews as total heroes. The worldwide political snafu that preceded Israel's rebirth is boiled down to the smuggling of Jewish D.P.s through British patrols, a one-sided desert scramble that resembles a gang of dead-end kids working against...