Word: tirelessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vendetta (RKO Radio) began shooting in 1946, ran through three versions, four directors (Max Opuls, Preston Sturges, Stuart Heisler and, finally, Mel Ferrer), and tireless tinkering Producer Howard Hughes. Total estimated cost: $3,200,000, which tops what Hollywood's Stanley (Champion, The Men) Kramer has spent in all on the five pictures he has produced...
...angered the press corps and distressed the State Department by glossing over the undemocratic aspects of the Perón regime. "As human beings," he said in one speech, "you cannot enter a room with Perón or Mrs. Perón without feeling their charm . . . They are tireless workers for their people." He bawled out correspondents for being "so violently opposed" to Perón and for considering freedom of the press so basic in judging a nation. Perón seized gleefully on his remarks and publicized them widely...
...Seven-Job Anna." As New York regional director of the War Manpower Commission in World War II, she evolved "the Buffalo Plan," juggling manpower on the basis of priorities, which was copied across the U.S. An ardent supporter of Fiorello La Guardia, and like him, volatile, unpredictable and tireless, she can be coy as Bo-Peep or brassy as Sergeant Quirt. Running her own labor-and public-relations business on the side, Mrs. Rosenberg (whose husband, Julius Rosenberg, is a Manhattan rug dealer) earned up to $60,000 a year for advising such clients as R. H. Macy...
...lead women out of the kitchen and into the atomic age" was the avowed purpose of the organization. "Not to know all about atomic energy and the wonderful things it can do," explained motherly, tireless Founder Muriel Howorth, "is like living in the Dark Ages." Last week in Aldwych's Waldorf Hotel, Mrs. Howorth's high-minded Atomic Energy Association of Great Britain (membership: 300) celebrated its second anniversary with an atomic pantomime called Isotopia...
...collection, wrote Walker, reflects "his personality. Gladstone enumerated six qualities which distinguish a collector: 'Appetite, leisure, wealth, knowledge, discrimination, and perseverance.' These qualities Mr. Gulbenkian possesses to a pre-eminent degree. [Fellow financiers] would be surprised to hear him comparing their business dealings to . . . Italian paintings! With tireless patience he has sought beautiful objects; pictures, sculpture, ancient coins, Near Eastern ceramics, manuscripts, eighteenth-century furniture, tapestries...