Word: brashly
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...usual musical-comedy eyewash: Betty Hutton was cast as an untutored cowgirl who comes to Manhattan, falls in love with a LIFE photographer, falls out of love, falls back in love again. But it was a fine vehicle for the Hutton bounce and enabled her to do her brash singing and dancing against a background of Broadway, a fashion show and an intimate nightclub. Betty got excellent support from a pair of cowpokes (Josh Wheeler and Guy Raymond), from Kevin McCarthy as the hero, and from a new French singer, Genevieve. The music, written especially for TV by Jay Livingston...
...been saying for years). Nevertheless, he is gathering support from 1) some conservative Democrats who still look upon him as a man of business, 2) others who want a generous amount of Harriman money in the campaign fund, and 3) still others who think that F.D.R. Jr. is a brash young man running on nothing but his father's name. Through the Washington pipeline came private word that "Honest Ave" had the quiet support of the country's two biggest Democrats: Harry Truman and Adlai Stevenson...
...textbook called Applied Imagination (Scribner; $3.75). drew up a special teacher's manual to go with it. Since then he has been writing to hundreds of educators and industrialists, has spoken often at workshops and banquets. Though some campuses have dismissed his course as a bit on the brash side, he has managed to chalk up an impressive record. His ideas have been taken over in whole or in part everywhere from the University of Buffalo and Drake University to Boston University...
...While touring some farm buildings at Pennsylvania State College, mild-mannered Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson was asked by a brash photographer if he could milk a cow. His dander up, Farmer Benson reached for the nearest teat, proved his skill by squirting a jet of milk into the photographer...
...mates always kidded young Jack Taylor. He was brash, he was illiterate, he could never keep a steady job. Yet he called himself an artist. A year ago, he was pushing a wheelbarrow on a building job in London's West End. The truck driver pointed at the nearby Redfern Gallery, and jeered at Jack: "You call yourself a painter. They buy paintings in that place...