Word: candidate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That MaCoy should have been sent to Korea in the first place was almost inevitable from the way he asked for the assignment. In leftist Guatemala, his candid reporting (including his coverage of the 1949 revolution) won him many friends, but made enemies too. During the 1950 elections, he was followed constantly, and his camera was stolen from his car. Shortly afterward, when he was out of the country, the car itself was stolen. Later it was found -overturned, battered and partially burned. When we phoned him from New York because of some concern over his personal safety, MaCoy said...
Back from the NATO meetings in Rome, Secretary of the Army Frank Pace arrived at Washington's National Airport, where a bright-eyed young lady gave photographers the chance to record a candid study in the technique of homecoming welcome. With happy six-year-old abandon, Priscilla Pace catapulted to the arms of her father, who welcomed the assault with obvious pleasure. At week's end Pace left his official problems long enough to go on another trip, this time to join the gold braid section in Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium, where he watched Navy trounce Army...
...John van Druten) is an interesting stage piece though an unsatisfactory play. A pastiche of Christopher Isherwood's tales of Berlin in 1930-a decadent city already loud with Naziism-the play uses young Chris himself as a camera eye. But what counts most are the very candid camera shots of an English girl named Sally Bowles-a bad little good girl, strenuously bohemian, ostentatiously wanton, spotted with living without really having been touched by life. Julie (Member of the Wedding) Harris plays Sally brilliantly, with amazing verve, and with a naughty-child air saves her from seeming nastily...
...always been excellent. Also nice blow for the misused word "discrimination." It used to be a handy one. And may Sugar Ray Robinson's "Daddy-O, ungather my dry goods, or I'll have to let you have it," be remembered favorably with Joe Jacobs' candid "I shoulda stood...
...Roman Catholic Bishops of the U.S., gathered in Washington for their annual meeting, last week issued a candid and eloquent appraisal of U.S. morals, with emphasis on morality in politics. For a nation shamed by a year of exposure of scandal in public office, the bishops' statement made sober reading. Excerpts...