Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During its twelve years, Queen for a Day has sifted the short and simple annals of some 15,000 women, judged 3,100 unhappy enough to be crowned winners, and given out prizes worth $14 million, almost all donated by manufacturers in exchange for a plug on the air. Average take per queen: $4,000 in gifts, plus four dozen roses, a wardrobe and a one-day tour of Hollywood in a gold Cadillac...
...Godmother (Edith Adams) with sequined eyelids and, for a magic wand, a drum major's baton. The attempt at innocent fairy-tale enchantment was sometimes harder to take: one interminable lovers' dialogue consisted of stilted inanities that sounded like a whole musicom-edy's worth of song cues laid end to end. Hammerstein, a gentle soul, also evidently felt compelled to soften the children's fable for grownups by reforming the wicked Stepmother and Stepsisters into merely pesky comic types. While making one of TV's biggest splashes and giving impetus to a cycle...
Domestic airlines argue that the new routes for KLM (worth about $1,000,000 a year in passenger and freight traffic) will open the door for much more foreign competition for U.S. airlines. The State Department got in return rights for U.S. carriers to fly from any point in the U.S. to Amsterdam and beyond (the U.S. now flies from Amsterdam only to Frankfurt) and into and beyond Surinam and The Netherlands Antilles (Pan American already flies to the Antilles). But U.S. carriers belittle such concessions, point out that air traffic between the U.S. and the Antilles is light...
...bloom stage, less than half a dozen new ones are selected each year to go into J. & P.'s catalogue. A single rose may cost $50,000 to develop, but royalties on a single rose have hit $500,000, so, says Perkins, "it's well worth...
...also pathetic. "Home?" he laughs. "What do I wanna go home fuh? I awready read alia papuhs." But nobody is fooled. And this is what Paddy Chayefsky truly understands and poignantly expresses: that loneliness is really a kind of childishness, and that life is really not worth living without love...