Word: chins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hollywood Gossipist Hedda Hopper led with her chin, bravely recorded the result: "When I wrote that I didn't understand why Louis Calhern and Nina Foch wanted to do King Lear on Broadway," she reported, "I got the following note from James T. Burns Jr. of Columbia University: 'The reason artists like Calhern and Foch choose to star in Lear instead of staying in California to portray defunct cattle barons and brilliantined cuties is approximately the same reason a gifted writer would prefer to become a Wolcott Gibbs instead of a Hedda Hopper...
...Russia's yakking Jacob Malik (see cover), Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb demanded scornfully: "Are we really to believe that the boys from Iowa or Colorado who are now sitting in foxholes near Chin-ju . . . are out, like Genghis Khan, to enslave the world? Show me any one of these U.S. soldiers, Mr. President, who would rather reign in Outer Mongolia than go back to Seattle, and I will gladly concede your point about 'imperialist America.' Until then...
First & Third Degree. Along the wall a guard of honor was drawn up-a dozen boys and young men in rumpled Stetsons. The smallest, aged 14, whose head barely reached above my thigh, beat a drum; the tallest, who came up to my chin, proudly carried an old but carefully polished rifle. This was a detachment of Bai Trang's Anti-Communist Youth and Children's Leagues...
This season, Knight roped in another star-studded cast for 1950's "seventh week." And he was even getting in a little second fiddling of his own. While his family sprawled on the living-room rug, he clamped a Stradivarius under his chin, launched into a Mozart quartet with three members of the famed Paganini Quartet. Grinned little First Violinist Henry Temianka: "He didn't get lost once." Said Second Fiddler Knight: "I only play with good musicians. Two punks would ruin the music...
...Keep your chin up, we're going to win," said Douglas MacArthur as he bade farewell to Chiang Kaishek. Then, as China's Generalissimo beamed and haoed, the U.S. Far East Commander flew off in his C-54 Bataan for Tokyo...