Word: coolness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cliff Gates, an athletic Tennessean with cool blue eyes, was taking his bar exam in 1917 when favorable word came on his application for a Marine Corps commission; he walked out of the exam hall and never went back. In France his company of the 6th Marines suffered more casualties than any other American outfit (131 men killed, 491 wounded). He was wounded seven times. It was, he said dryly, "a life of hardship and hazard," but he wanted no other. He liked the work: fighting...
During a breather between her official duties Luz Banzon Magsaysay, pretty wife of Philippines President Ramon Magsaysay, was pictured cool and carefree in Manila...
Chet Baker (Pacific Jazz LP). Young (24) Baker, of California's cool school, is popping out like the measles. One record, Chet Baker Ensemble, features furious, close work by a small group; they play mostly original exercises with such titles as Ergo, Bockhanal and Pro Defunctus. Another disk, Chet Baker Sings, has eight old standards, e.g., But Not for Me, The Thrill Is Gone, I Get Along Without You Very Well, Look for the Silver Lining, crooned by Baker in a light, untrained voice that nevertheless has a moving quality. His soft, appealing trumpet is heard...
During the four years since Britain recognized Red China, the British charge d'affaires in Peking suffered the kind of humiliation that a century ago would have led Lord Palmerston to dispatch a gunboat. The top Communist brass snubbed him; their juniors let him cool his heels in anterooms. His mission consisted largely of trying to free Britons who had been clapped in jail by Mao Tse-tung, and trying to get compensation for British firms whose assets had been expropriated by the Reds. The Communists never bothered to send diplomatic representation to London...
Smug Little Incubus. Author Brophy is Londoner of Irish descent. At 24 she writes clean, cool English prose, shows a perceptive grasp of her material and has turned out a pointed and amusing little satire. Her last chapter, entitled "Soliloquy of an Embryo," follows the brief career of Edwina's "snug, smug self-sufficient little incubus." It is the kind of fantastic literary device that only a very competent and very serene writer could bring off. Author Brophy manages...