Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...yearned for money, fame, pretty girls and fun. He was a husky, handsome, good-natured youth with wavy platinum hair, and he hoped the motion-picture business would provide all. It did. He married a Boston heiress, whom he met while toiling as the chauffeur of a for-hire car; when divorce ended the union a year and a half later, he had accumulated such a handsome wardrobe that Producer Cecil B. DeMille personally gave him a job -at $30 a week...
...hours, Mickey was questioned about his income. He finally admitted to a $40,000 home, $48,000 in furnishings, two Cadillacs and an armored car. But he insisted that he was really broke and owed about $300,000 to friends who frequently lend him large sums without collateral, security, or even a note, because "they just happen to like...
...Transcontinental Express, which crosses Australia's desert thrice weekly, was not supposed to exceed 40 m.p.h., but as it roared through the scheduled stop at Deakin one day last month, Moore clocked its speed at a breakneck 72 m.p.h. Passengers caught in the aisles of the six-car train were thrown to the floor as it rocked and swayed. Those who kept their seats had to dodge an avalanche of baggage falling from the racks above their heads...
...needs a man's company all the more," oldtime Cinemactress Miriam Hopkins, 46, went to her astrologer, got the cheering news that her next big romance "would occur sometime in 1951." Said she: "I was so excited to hear that that I rushed out and bought a new car...
Favorite exhibit on a floating waxworks plying the rivers and canals of Belgium and France: a Pullman car scene, labeled "Honeymoon in Arizona," with Mickey Rooney in an upper berth, Judy Garland in a lower, both gazing at some painted Indians...