Word: bowe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suggestion has been rejected as "overly flamboyant." There will be no breakoff at Geneva, nor a breakoff from allies; the U.S. is prepared to go along with a British plan for joint U.S.-U.S.S.R.-British underground tests to improve detection techniques. Also, present plans are that the U.S. will bow to the worldwide outcry against radioactive fallout by resuming only underground tests -even though the restriction will hamper development of high-altitude nuclear anti-missile missiles...
...title. The Day Nothing Happened telegraphs the gentle punch that Humorist Corey Ford (Has Anybody Seen Me Lately? Never Say Diet) has aimed at the current publishing mania for Day books. He parodies the pompous epiphenomena that accompany such ventures, including the introductory note of martyred scholarship, the bow of punctilio to humble assistants ("My thanks to Mr. F. L. Peters at the Information Booth at Grand Central"). And there is the jacket blurb from a fellow authority in the field: "'The most exciting twenty-four hours since the day I shot Jim Bishop'-A. Lincoln...
...Student Council must bow before such sagacity. Pull down the shades, dear...
...Catch Stars. To get his star, Hub Robinson had flown to Scandinavia, tempted Actress Bergman with a reported $100,000, plus ownership of the show in Europe. While in Europe, Robinson also talked Alec Guinness into making his U.S. TV bow (scheduled Nov. 10) by captivating him with a comic short story about a Machiavellian bank clerk. For forthcoming Ford specials, Robinson has also hooked Jack Benny, George Burns, Marian Anderson, Leonard Bernstein, Jimmy Stewart, Ethel Merman. Coos one Robinson recruit, Roz Russell (whose coldness to TV he thawed by offering her a thumping $100,000 for the first Ford...
...cafe's little known features is that it opens at eleven in the morning and does business until late at night. A student, tired of the noise and dirt at the Bick, can take his morning coffee break in the relative tranquility of 12 Bow Street...