Word: costello
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...incentives [for better executives in government] become less rather than greater when investigating committees from Washington, dominated by men like Senator Tobey . .. . imply that men like Costello and Erickson, whom most of us never saw until the Kefauver committee televised them, run the city's business...
...Angeles judge decided that silent Cinemactress Dolores Costello, 45, onetime wife of the late John Barrymore, had grounds for divorcing her second husband, Dr. John Vruwink, 60. Said Dolores : "I got what I would call the monastic treatment. He wouldn't speak for days at a time." Even worse, she said, he pushed her around the kitchen in one row, and she got her head caught in a swinging door...
Whether Thurber's drawing requires psychiatry or not, a great many people, including New Yorker Editor Harold Ross, cannot get enough of it. A series of murals, executed by Thurber years ago in Manhattan for Tim Costello's Third Avenue saloon (known to its clientele as "The Chop House of Broken Dreams"), is one of the extracurricular features of the establishment. The late Paul Nash, British painter and art critic, once declared Thurber "a master of impressionistic line," comparing him to the early Matisse...
...elected Parliament last week, a girl in a white blouse and green beret sat working at sums. As each of the 14 independent members who held the balance of power in the new government got up to speak, the busy spectator made a mark under the name "Dev" or "Costello." In the elections, two weeks before, Dev's party had won 69 seats; all other parties and the independents together had won 78. Unless the independents now voted for Prime Minister John Costello, he would not be able to form a government, and Dev would...
Next to speak was former Health Minister Dr. Noel Browne, whose resignation over a public-health bill had brought on the election (TIME, June 11). "Costello's government was . . . against the interest of the people . . ." began Browne. The girl marked down 71 under...