Word: briefed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gaulle, in French, replied: "I want him to know this: he who has just had the honor of decorating him esteems him and admires him today more than ever." De Gaulle ended the brief ceremony by crying: "Vive Churchill! Vive I'Angleterre! Vive la France...
...Kishi has been denounced by the unions and the Socialists for wanting to return to harsh prewar police rule. Last week 180,000 coal miners, 60,000 postal and 50,000 telegraph workers went on strike in protest. Railroad workers forced the cancellation of 150 train schedules, and a brief teachers' walkout closed half the nation's schools. But Kishi's most nettlesome problem was in the Diet itself. Only four out of 46 bills introduced this session have been passed, and the Diet was scheduled to adjourn before week's end. Kishi decided to have...
...Eartha Kitt advanced her feline personality across the footlights," wrote a London critic, "offering songs full of menace and other unmentionable qualities and complaining I Wanna Be Evil, as if we did not know." Then, after the Royal Variety Performance, Eartha became a wide-eyed child in brief converse with Queen Elizabeth...
...odors in 90 minutes for The Scent of Mystery, including flowers, roasting chestnuts, brandy, coffee, shoe polish (the villain will be trapped by smell clues). Mike Jr. will spend $1,000,000 (with United Artists) on shooting the film in highly scented Spain. The movie will include a brief appearance at the end by Todd's stepmother-partner, Elizabeth Taylor. Liz's movie odor: still undetermined...
...across two pages of the movie trade papers, dressed in nothing but a wet white silk shirt, Hollywood will get the word. "R.B."-the modest monogram on the shirt's breast pocket-tells it all. Russell Birdwell, Hollywood's busiest huckster, is on the job. After a brief dry spell trying to direct pictures (The Girl in the Kremlin, Flying Devils), and a few months of promoting such inanimate products as automatic laundries, "the Bird" is back at his appointed task: fabricating movie myths and getting their names into print...