Word: brashly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life are mostly tight-lipped about their memories. Back home in North Carolina, a boy who used to squire her will only say that she was a nice little country girl with a better-than-average figure. Husband No. 1, brash little Mickey Rooney, declares stiffly: "I have a code of ethics, and it doesn't include talking about my ex-wives." Husband No. 2, Bandleader Artie Shaw, says: "She is a nice girl. I feel complete detachment." Potential Husband No. 3, Crooner Frank Sinatra (now on the hunt for a divorce), is on record as saying only that...
Next month he will sign up a Manhattan outlet, and one in Japan. With his New York station, McLendon will be able to offer sponsors nationwide coverage. And by next summer, brash young Gordon McLendon, 30, confidently expects to have the biggest network in the business...
...brash, ingenious, emphatic and go-getting. It has given to the world Charles ("Boss") Kettering, genius of production, Joe Louis, onetime genius of the clout, and Edgar A. Guest, genius of the jingle. One of its showpieces is its Institute of Arts, containing Diego Rivera's monstrous panorama of machines, gears and allegorical nudes. But the acme of its important art is the elegant chrome design of the automobile radiator...
...Town. The summer of 1951 marks the 25th anniversary of Jim Thurber's arrival in New York City. Knowing only Columbus and Paris, he loathed New York at first, with its roar, its dirt, its jostle, and the brash ways of its citizenry. But he got a job as reporter on the Evening Post, which reduced its price from 5? to 3? the day he went to work...
...Riviera (20th Century-Fox) is that rare Hollywood accomplishment, a cinemusical whose songs, dances and laughs sparkle as brightly as its Technicolor. Set among the lavish pleasures-scenic and feminine-of the French Riviera, the movie serves a fat double helping of Danny Kaye, playing both a brash U.S. entertainer and a debonair French hero whom women cannot resist...