Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bunkum & Nonsense. Almost as if to prove it, thousands of disciples-mostly women-used to gather to listen to his lectures on "truth and love." Reverent old women and awe-struck businessmen would crowd around him to touch his hand or coat. Two years ago, close to 50 and still handsome, Krishnamurti returned to India and relative obscurity, still lecturing with the help of a few wealthy followers. Last week he was in the news again, involved in one of India's rare cases of marital dissolution...
...center of the ballroom, somebody pressed a six-foot box jammed with 150 long-stemmed roses into the arms of a big, bewildered girl in a rented mink coat. As they watched, Noel Coward and his old friend Producer John C. Wilson suddenly and shamelessly burst into tears. "We just couldn't help it," explained Wilson later. "There on a platter before us was the whole essence of show business...
Other protectors and detractors were gathering on all sides. Eleanor Holm Rose, who owns a $5,000 piece of Carol's show (given her for their tenth anniversary by husband Billy), had offered to help find (at wholesale) a mink coat suitable to her eminence. Even old friends in high places were paying Carol the new compliment of envy. A famous musical-comedy star who until recently thought Carol was "too cute for words" now greets her with a frosty, feline smile. Carol loves every bit of it. The only real cloud still left on her horizon...
...clock one morning last week, just seven months and a day after their wedding near Cannes, Rita gave Aly his cue, and Aly, in his own words, "blew up completely." Throwing away the script, he stopped long enough to get into his clothes and help Rita put a mink coat over her pajamas. Then he hustled her out of the four-room suite, through one of the hotel's side exits and into a black Buick. Aly took the wheel himself and roared off to the clinic two miles away...
Before the publishing house of George Newnes Ltd., just off London's Strand, a hansom cab stopped and out stepped an elegant young man in top hat and frock coat. He was Arthur Conan Doyle, come to deliver the manuscript of a short story entitled A Scandal in Bohemia. Published in the six-month-old Strand magazine, in July 1891, the story's hero was a sleuth named Sherlock Holmes. He was an instant hit and so was the Strand...