Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...acquired from his father, one of Mississippi's bigger, behind-the-scenes political operators. Once, remembers Jim, "I had to arrange for a whole board to get elected in order to elect myself business manager of the paper." On another occasion he broke open a ballot box for two strong reasons: 1) to fix the election of a friend as prettiest girl; 2) to filch ballots proclaiming him (as he recalls) biggest liar in the class...
...martini road in Geneva! We sometimes drank with him, in the intervals, in martinis to peace and friendship in the world." Feeling extremely euphoric, Bulganin then lurched over to a U.S. military attache, guffawed and grabbed his ear, droolishly whispered: "Someday we're gonna have peace!" Rough box score on the number of martinis downed in an hour and a half by roistering Nikolai Bulganin: a staggering...
More entertainment will come on Saturday afternoon. The committee is considering a proposal to have a box lunch picnic on the banks of the Charles before the crew races with Boston University and M.I.T. In addition, the Freshman Glee Club will give a concert, but the time has not been...
What Borgnine, the producers of Marty and their pressagents were revealing was an interest in publicity, the kind that might help Marty win some of the eight Oscars it has been nominated to compete for. Winning them in Hollywood next week would mean up to $500,000 at the box office for Marty. Its producers and publicists have already demonstrated that they have both the cash and the know-how to go after it. To date the ballyhoo for Marty-including trade paper advertising, 16-mm. prints of the film, personal appearances of Borgnine on TV and radio, rhinestone cleavers...
...Personal," gathered up in Father Udovic's campaign "to personalize Peter's Pence" by having the bishop, who is going to Rome, "present the proceeds to the Holy Father personally." For days the innocuous-looking envelope ticks like a time bomb in the bishop's "In" box. Father Udovic finally sends for the letter writer, a laconic little woman who grudgingly reveals that the envelope contains a dollar with her name and address on it in ink. "I mean I don't want somebody else takin' all the credit with the Holy Father!" she explains...