Word: thought
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wonder if Mr. Charles Mortimer [Dec. 7] and his "factory maids" have given any thought to how mankind should eventually be reincarnated: canned, frozen, made from ready-mix or just plain "cold and serve"? G. E. HASSE...
...last, Anna Maria Louise Italiano chose the Hollywood name, Anne Bancroft, from a list handed out by Darryl Zanuck; it was the only name, she thought, that "did not sound like I should look like Lana Turner." Hollywood historians remember her first movie, Don't Bother to Knock, chiefly because it was the first big role for a future star named Marilyn Monroe. Anne Bancroft was just an added starter...
Eccentric Alliance. Hollywood gossips kept track of Anne's long and apparently aimless list of dates. Says she: "I wanted to get married-just about anybody would have done. I'd even thought of marrying Jessel." She finally married Martin A. May, nine years her senior, the son of a wealthy ranching family. It was an alliance that seemed eccentric even for Hollywood. Martin was studying law when he met Anne (after five failures at the bar exam, he gave up the effort). He wanted to keep the marriage a secret until he could tell his mother...
...words of John XXIII were not calculated to give the world's press any ease. "Can the Pope," asked he, "remain indifferent to press accounts which have nothing to do with instructions or honest information? Does his heart not suffer at the thought of the poison broadcast widely, without concern for so many innocents? Can it be legitimate to pander to morbid curiosity with details and descriptions that had better be left in the files of the police laboratories and the courts? Is it ever licit to use every criminal act, over which it would be better to draw...
...they sold to everybody at the same price. Connor turned out to be such an expert witness that Kefauver complained : "Every time I ask you a question you start reading." Replied Connor, who had 22 assistants with him and had spent six months getting ready to testify: "I thought I would do you the honor of coming well prepared, sir." Asked why Merck's prednisone retailed in London at $7.53 per 100 tablets v. $17.90 in the U.S., Connor said that it was cheaper to manufacture and sell drugs abroad...