Word: trapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Sinatra was on public view in a musical, Young at Heart, and in a retread of a bestseller, Not As a Stranger, that was cashing in big. He also had two major movies in the can (The Tender Trap, a comedy, and Guys and Dolls, a musical in which he portrays Nathan Detroit, proprietor of "The world's oldest permanent floating crap game"), and had signed contracts for Carousel and three more. Probable total: five movies in twelve months. Probable personal in come from pictures in that period...
...seedy local gentry. The story is chiefly concerned with the battle between tough, energetic Mastro-don Gesualdo and that gentry-with the rich ones who connive to block his designs on their dwindling lands, with the impoverished ones who sneer at his peasant origins while scheming to trap him into marriage with their daughters. The dialogue may be racy in Italian, but in Lawrence's English it comes out as a series of blurted phrases overloaded with sarcasm and exclamation points. It all seems as noisy as an Italian kitchen when the pasta has boiled over on the baby...
...been as bitter and bumpy as those between General Electric Co. and the C.I.O.'s International Union of Electrical Workers. With out fail, the I.U.E.'s trigger-tempered Boss James B. Carey peppered the company with shouts of "chiseling," called its offers a "sham" and "an obvious trap." Once, in a crescendo of rage, he bellowed that G.E. was an "aid and ally" of the Communists. Usually G.E.'s negotiator, Vice President Lemuel P. Boulware, gave every bit as good...
...room went on the blink; the rooftop water tank overflowed into the handsomely decorated L'Escoffier restaurant, soaking the deep-pile carpets. Rats invaded the basement and chewed on the beautiful hand-woven furniture designed for the presidential suite; one woman employee caught a toe in a mouse trap. But this week, finally, Conrad Hilton, the world's biggest hotelman, was ready to open his newest and plushest hotel: the $17 million, 450-room Beverly Hilton. Beamed Hilton: "This will be the biggest hotel opening in the history of the business...
...officer and gentleman is not prepared to go to prison when he thinks he is in the right," he proclaimed. "One must expect some casualties." Added the fierce little colonel, screwing his mon ocle into his good eye: "I have been accustomed to meeting the enemy and trying to trap him wherever I have...