Word: name
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...notice that there was a slight error, which I do not think you will mind my calling attention to. It concerns my African name, and if I may, I would like to spell it correctly...
...reason for its length is that every child takes the first name of all his male ancestors. Often following the first name is a descriptive word or two, telling; about the character of the person, making a true African name somewhat like a story. This may sound most unusual to Americans, but it is the custom of my people...
...sales charts, things went swimmingly. Thanks largely to Esther Williams' name and luscious presence (she traveled 200,000 miles promoting the pools last year), sales climbed from $500,000 through 50 distributors in 1956 to more than $9,000,000 with 762 distributors in 1959. But last December, International voluntarily filed an insolvency statement with a U.S. district court in New York, obtained permission to stay in business while it negotiated with its creditors. The obvious question: Why had profits failed to keep pace with soaring sales? Other swimming-pool makers thought it was largely due to poor management...
Last week Chairman Pruess offered another explanation: "The fantastic cost of exploiting and promoting the Esther Williams name and likeness." After estimating that the company had paid its glamorous president $607,000 in the past three years, Pruess announced that International's relationship with Miss Williams "no longer exists." Retorted Actress Williams from Hollywood, after pointing out that she had in fact taken less than the 5% a year due her to help out the company: "If a man can't provide a 5% payment on a $10 million gross to the person who is the whole reason...
Born. To Marisa Pavan, 27, cinemactress (The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit), twin sister of Cinemactress Pier Angeli; and Jean Pierre Aumont, 49, French cinemactor (The Seventh Sin): their second son; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Patrick. Weight...