Word: charms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gentle, grey-maned Senator Walter F. George was beaming. By sheer charm and persuasion he had talked the committee into dropping a $22,600,000 House-approved levy on soft drinks-a hard blow, had it passed, for the State of Georgia, home of Chairman George and Coca-Cola. Other changes: > Income-tax exemptions were lowered to $750 for single taxpayers, $1,500 for married couples, creating some 2,272,000 new taxpayers. But of the estimated $305,000,000 from lower exemptions, they will pay only about...
...stiff literary standards, England's Poet Laureate is an easy man to underestimate. But the very qualities that make his work minor (and made him Laureate) -simplicity, traditionalism and sentimentality-are also his great charm. Hardly less than Rudyard Kipling, he is a workingman's poet. The same qualities make In the Mill, the story of the days when he was an intelligent young workingman, one of the most engaging of his books...
...Janie, who recognizes the car and thinks Harry is Dick, whom she has not met but hopes to. She impulsively climbs in beside him. That night they go dancing -in a booth in a phonograph record shop. But Janie cannot resist the bushy-haired mechanic's impregnably impertinent charm. He: "I think maybe I'm in love with you." She: "You are?" He: "I think so." A pause and an arch look from Janie: "Well, when'll you know?" They know immediately because each time they kiss they hear a bell peal...
Farmer into Secretary. Claude Wickard has a resonant baritone voice with the gravy-thick Indiana accent familiar to all the U.S. since Wendell Willkie went campaigning. Unimpressive, with neither the bashful charm nor the fog of mystical profundity that shrouds Henry Wallace, Wickard is a straightforward, balding, apple-cheeked farmer with a weather-bronzed, red-neck color that will last him all his days. He is five-feet-eight, weighs 180 lb., has to watch his weight. He looks more Irish than German, has a jaw so square and solid that it looks as if it had been laid...
Mendelssohn: Capriccio Brillant (Joanna Graudan, pianist, with the Minneapolis Symphony conducted by Dmitri Mitropoulos; Columbia; 3 sides; $2.50). Pre-Victorian showpiece, faded but not without charm, brilliantly played by the Latvian-born wife of the orchestra's first cellist. On the fourth side, an elegant minuet from Lully's The Temple of Peace...