Word: stocking
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...scientific research: "The Russians would love to have us use up our stock of atom bombs [in Korea...
...Charlie Chaplin gave her a big buss, "that's the first time you've done that in all the years we've known each other." The occasion, according to Variety: the sale, by Co-Owners Pickford and Chaplin, of 7,200 shares of United Artists stock (TIME, July...
...them, he took small ads in national magazines offering housewives six cans of baby food for $1 and asking them to send in the names of their grocers. Hundreds of women wrote to Gerber, and within 90 days he had persuaded scores of grocers to stock his wares. In the first year he sold $22,000 worth of baby foods. As sales grew, so did Gerber's family (to five children), and as he added new products he tried them out on his own brood...
...picture was shot in England (so that Producer Disney could use some of his own impounded treasure), but the story still takes place in the never-never land of young boys' heads. It is played so broadly by British actors in stock-company style that even the youngest fan can follow the adventures of the cast's only U.S. actor, Bobby (The Window) Driscoll, as Cabin Boy Jim Hawkins...
...partly explain Nebraska-born Brando's rapid rise to stardom. Without much formal education, he left home at 19 to make a name for himself on the stage. He was luckier than most. After a year's study at Manhattan's Dramatic Workshop and in summer stock, he was cast by Rodgers & Hammerstein as the son in their 1944 I Remember Mama. From then on, says Brando, "I never had to look for work...