Word: blanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adult Western. In Wichita, Kans., Denver Bland won the Democratic nomination for Sedgwick County sheriff, soundly defeating Candidate J. Wyatt Earp...
Food for the Poets. Beating their way through this thicket of conflicting interests, the movers and shakers of the General Assembly were steadily working their way toward a resolution as bland as porridge. At week's end the compromise most likely to succeed appeared to be a Norwegian resolution that-in suitably vague terms-would authorize U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold to "make the U.N. presence felt" in Lebanon and Jordan as a prelude to withdrawal of U.S. and British forces...
Soon to become an honored statesman at Madame Tussaud's wax museum in London, Ghana's Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah was making top-of-his-head problems. Museum Hair Specialist Vera Bland not only had trouble getting Nkrumah-like hair ("It is in very short commercial supply"), but paled at the prospect of putting it on the wax head at 1,000 hairs per sq. in. But at least, said Bernard Tussaud, boss of the firm, "he hasn't any bumps on his head at all. He seems a good-tempered, benevolent kind...
...suspended production because of a studio fire (TIME, July 14), Cinemogul Sam Goldwyn decided to fire Director Rouben Mamoulian.Reason: "Differences of opinion." "I have the greatest respect for Rouben Mamoulian," said Sam, "but . . ." Said Mamoulian, who directed both the original play and the original musical: "Mr. Goldwyn's bland statement hides a story of deceit and calumny. In a suit which I propose to file, it will be necessary at long last to expose his publicity greed, his professional hypocrisy and selfishness." Mamoulian's examples: Goldwyn insisted that he be "identified publicity-wise as the sole creator...
...these circumstances. Nasser, who had also sailed out of the eastern Mediterranean in search of some relaxation (see above), might accept the challenge to live up to Dag Hammarskjold's bland finding that his U.A.R.'s meddling was not major. Then it would become possible for the Lebanese government to solve the crisis with its own means, if it has the will...