Word: brashness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ambassador Anatoly Lavrentiev, 49. When he went to Belgrade as ambassador in 1946, Marshal Tito was the prize exhibit in the Kremlin's gallery of satellite chiefs, and Diplomat Lavrentiev was in a cushy spot. Then Tito made his break with the Kremlin. (Shortly before the break, a brash Yugoslav diplomat asked Foreign Minister Molotov: "Why have you sent us such a stupid ambassador?" Replied Molotov: "Lavrentiev may be stupid, but he is a very good Bolshevik.") When Lavrentiev came to Iran as ambassador only five weeks ago, the Communists were riding high, and Moscow seemed...
...through the tiring ordeal with the grace of a princess born and the tact of a diplomat. She could speak gently of her own engagement (to James Hanson, a wealthy young British businessman), which had been broken off after Roman Holiday was finished. She could still charmingly squelch the brash reporter who tried to pry deeper. She could speak with disarming gaiety of her pleasingly irregular teeth and still not deny her obvious beauty. To the agonized gentlemen of the West Coast, whose business it often is to turn hatcheck girls into great ladies overnight with publicity gimmicks, Audrey...
...C.I.O. expects to use its commercial time to play down its reputation as the brash young giant of U.S. labor. In line with this subdued pitch, some C.I.O. leaders began looking askance at Vandercook's black Vandyke beard, which he has worn ever since hiking 600 miles through the Cameroons 25 years ago. Was it possible that he would look too much like a "character" to listeners? Vandercook rose voluntarily to the occasion: last week in a Manhattan hotel room, he sadly shaved off his beard...
...Soldier Douglas MacArthur, the job of presiding over the annual meeting of Remington Rand in Buffalo, N.Y. last week was his first such assignment since becoming chairman of the board last July. MacArthur soon found his position under fire from a brash stockholder named Lewis D. Gilbert, who claimed to represent 3,800 shares, and makes a business of heckling at annual meetings (TIME...
...Chicago, a center of the U.S. television industry, old hands catalogued brash, upstart young Earl W. (for William) Muntz as merely another California screwball when he invaded their city and their business four years ago. They knew that "Madman" Muntz's zany advertising, depicting himself as a lunatic in a Napoleon hat ("I buy 'em retail, sell 'em wholesale. More fun that way!") had made him the used-car king of Los Angeles. But they assumed that the tough TV business would soon drive him really crazy...