Word: coolness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Love Match. In Tottori, Japan, Fire Insurance Co. Manager Chikwo Iwamoto, 36, burned down his mistress' house, explained to police: "She had become cool...
...offer to Rice End Gene Jones: "Hey, kid, you want a ticket to the game?" In Jokanovich's grimy fist were two tickets for the Cotton Bowl. His gag had a sharp point. Jones was in the Cotton Bowl, but his team was hardly in the ball game. Cool, cocky Navy did not take Rice seriously, and did not need to. Middie Quarterback Tom Forrestal, playing his last game, put on a deft lesson in the tactics of offensive warfare. Sharp-eyed while the Rice line shifted defensively, Forrestal changed many of his plays as he crouched over...
...toward Parkman's lower depths, a kind of Mermaid Tavern setting where the young toughs drink, brawl and frolic with the "pigs" who work at the brassiere factory. The arbiter of this elegant bunch is 'Bama Dillert, a gambler without a river boat. 'Bama is a cool autocrat of the poker table, and Dave Hirsh shortly becomes his equally cool partner. 'Bama believes that luck is a function of the brain and that man will eventually master it ("maybe thats the next stage of life or evolution us human beins will evolve up to or something...
...Journal today faces the almost insupportable task of judging among the warring services to and for which it speaks. For nearly a century it has kept a cool head while raising its circulation. Editor LeRoy Whitman, 55, onetime aviation reporter and assistant city editor of the Washington Post, says: "It has never been a question of steering the middle course. The question is: 'What's best for the national defense...
...Cool, blonde, 19-year-old Diane Varsi, starring in her first movie role, does an excellent job with the sulks and enthusiasms of a moody high school girl. When she and Russ Tamblyn, a good teen-ager at 22, shamble through a scene in which each confesses to the ownership of one of those books that come in plain wrappers, the result could be mawkish, instead is both funny and touching...