Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reported setting her sights to bring down the boss of the army, whose criticisms had caused her so much recent embarrassment. When this news was conveyed to Defense Minister José Humberto Sosa Molina, at his big army base outside the capital, the general's comment was blunt & brief: "If she wants me out, let her come to Campo de Mayo...
Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, king of jazz trumpeters, went back home for a brief reign as King of the Zulus at New Orleans' Mardi Gras. Buttoned into an outlandish red velvet tunic, and brandishing a silver scepter and a fat black cigar, Satchmo began his triumphal tour at 9 in the morning. Rumbled gravel-voiced Louis as he settled himself on the throne on his gilded float: "Man, this is rich." The parade stopped before the Gertrude Geddes Willis Funeral Home, and the royal party dismounted for a light lunch of turkey and ham sandwiches, pickles, olives and champagne...
...foreign correspondents, Peiping was once one of the world's most comfortable beats. Life in the walled university city, the base for covering North China, was graceful, unhurried, and for a foreigner with U.S. dollars comparatively cheap. Newsmen came for brief visits and, taken by Peiping's ancient charms, often stayed on for months in Ta Tien Shui Ching Hutung (Big Sweet Water Well Alley), Peiping's correspondents...
Patter & Pace. In the brief six weeks of its polished existence, the Revue has climbed to a 50.6 Hooperating (bettered only by TV's two top attractions, Milton Berle and Arthur Godfrey). Last week, it earned the most solid accolade of all: its sponsor, the Admiral Corp. (radios, television sets, refrigerators), picked up the option for another six months. It was no small tab. The Revue is one of the costliest things of its kind ($25,000 a week...
...After a brief, unhappy career as a wine salesman, Garrick wheedled his way on to the stage. He was an almost immediate success. At the age of 24 he revolutionized English acting with his performance of Colley Gibber's version of Shakespeare's Richard III. Where his predecessors had declaimed in stiff and grandiloquent periods, he developed an easy-flowing, natural and rant-free style. They had recited, but he acted...