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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Disillusioned. Next day, when the moviemen returned from Saigon to shoot some final scenes inside the Cao Dai cathedral, they discovered that the Vice Pope and his staff had departed for points unknown. Those Cao Daists who remained refused to have anything further to do with moviemaking...
...which already has three Negroes) began to get phone calls and telegrams. Just what was going on at good old Groton? Not a thing, the school replied hastily: though "we are open to all qualified candidates regardless of race, religion or creed," the circular was a fraud, its author unknown. Said one alumnus as he chucked his circular away: "And I was just about to write them out a check...
...White seemed to get better and went home. Then she had a relapse. In Dr. Thigpen's office she went into a two-minute trance. As her eyes opened, she stared blankly around the room. She fixed them on the doctor. Then, "with an unknown but curiously impressive voice and with immeasurable poise." she asked: "Who are you?" This was Eve White's third personality, soon christened Jane...
...flurries of real snow and machine-made publicity, five unknown actresses were freighted across the continent to be tested for the title role in Marjorie Morningstar. As the season's best-plugged heroine hunt progressed, Hollywood jungle drums boomed Carroll (Baby Doll) Baker, Jean Simmons, Elizabeth Taylor and the Old Vic's Claire Bloom for the part. A likely long shot, according to one tub thumper, for Herman Wouk's bagel-belt heroine: Steve Allen's sometime girl singer, Irish-descended Erin O'Brien...
Worthy spoke of the Chinese Street Committees, calling them "the key to the country's future." The Committees, which are practically unknown to the West, are the regime's major device for keeping in touch with the people and ruling them on a local level...