Word: bit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...perfunctory ceremony observing the tenth anniversary of the Smith-Mundt Act permanently establishing the Voice of America. Unintended high point: when South Dakota's irrepressible Senator Karl Mundt produced a ten-year-old picture of General Eisenhower plumping for the bill, burbled, "You haven't changed a bit, Mr. President." Squinting hard at the photo, the President muttered a disbelieving "Oh, bro-ther...
Soothed and supported by an M-G-M settlement that will pay him $100,000 a year over a ten-year period, Dore Schary set his sights on Broadway, where in the late '203 and '303 he had been a bit actor and an unsuccessful playwright (only one production reached Broadway). "I had long felt there was a play in F.D.R.'s illness," he says. After long talks with the family and meticulous research, Playwright Schary first whipped off the last scene, in which Roosevelt doggedly humps himself to the rostrum on crutches to make the nomination...
...pull on your finger. You have to sense when the gate is going to spring. When I leave the gate, sometimes I take my finger off the horse right away, sometimes not. You keep the horse loose. Then, out of the gate, you gather him up and set the bit in his mouth and settle his stride to the snugness you want...
After co-starring in a TV drama, two cinemoppets of yore, Jackie Coogan, 43, and Margaret O'Brien, 21, hearti'y agreed that a child actor's life can be just jolly and not a bit traumatic. Coogan's daughter Leslie Diane, 4, will soon portray Jackie as a kid in a screen biography...
...saliva would flow into the right eye socket and restore his vision. In a delicate, 2½-hour operation, Surgeon Mays cut into Dougherty's right cheek, freed the parotid salivary duct almost back to the ear, cut it free from the inside of the mouth with a bit of mucous membrane attached, then led it to the eye's outer corner...