Word: bumptiousness
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Maria Beale Fletcher, 19, stage-struck daughter of a pair of professional dancers from Asheville, N.C.. found herself Miss America of 1962. A sleek (35-24-35) veteran of the Rockette line at Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall, the hazel-eyed brunette so impressed bumptious Contest Judge (and Broadway Producer) David Merrick that before the Atlantic City finals, he planned to offer her the understudy lead in a forthcoming musical. Among the new Miss America's projected rounds: an overseas tour to display "an example of what our youth is like other than the juvenile delinquents...
Over an early-morning beer in a Los Angeles tavern, bumptious Irish Playwright Brendan (The Hostage) Behan recalled how he told off a Canadian critic during a recent visit to Toronto when he heard the man belittling U.S. space achievements. "I say to him: 'My friend, Ireland will put a shillelagh into orbit, Israel will put a matzo ball into orbit and Liechtenstein will put a postage stamp into orbit before ever you Canadians put up a mouse.' And do you know, he hit me just for that...
...complaining that Tony was far too democratic for any royal servant to work for. To keep busy around the house while his wife was out working at her royal duties, Tony designed and built an elaborate balsa-wood model of an aviary for the London Zoo. Sniffed the bumptious Daily Express: "Mister Armstrong-Jones must now be ranked as one of the leading aviary designers in the country-a not overcrowded profession...
United States Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* Eddie Albert in a drip-dry drama, Famous, in which he plays a Broadway composer determined to keep his bumptious children out of show business...
Most scientists around the world think that Major Gagarin and the good ship Vostok have opened a door that will never entirely close. Space exploration may slow down for a while or stop, but the human species is young, and it is the bumptious master of a fruitful planet. More men will always yearn to travel in Major Gagarin's wake, to see the blue band around the curve of the earth. Eventually, perhaps 10, 100, or 1,000 years from now, a great spaceship will carry men far out in the solar system. They will learn whether...