Word: coyness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much enthusiasm for modern art, particularly Disney's. But Disney is by all odds the most successful cinema educator to date. Says FORTUNE: "Previous educational movies, with such rare exceptions as the MARCH OF TIME and Pare Lorentz films, have been dull as dishwater and often embarrassingly coy in the bargain. Disney's are not only enlightening but exciting...
Strictly Instrumental (Harry James; Columbia). A persuasive, iterated phrase, and some neat jiving by the newest top-flight band, serve as background to Harry James's fluttering trumpet, as coy as Mickey Mouse...
...Husband, in which Katharine Hepburn made her first Broadway success a decade ago, By Jupiter makes smirking and off-color copy-which soon palls and sometimes offends-of Playwright Thompson's inverted world of ancient Amazons where the women are bold and rakish warriors and their menfolk coy and high-voiced homebodies. It winds up with a real War-Between-the-Sexes in which the invading Greeks make proper women of the Amazons by stealing the magic girdle that is the source of their strength...
Indiana Boy. Albert Wayne Coy, 38, was born in Shelby County, Ind., soon dropped the Albert as excess baggage. After college he worked for the Franklin Evening Star, finally bought a scraggly country weekly...
...made friends with Governor Paul V. McNutt, who hired him as secretary, made him Indiana WPA administrator, took him along to the Philippines. When McNutt switched from High Commissioner of the Philippines to FSAdministrator, Coy went along as McNutt's assistant in Washington. There the beautiful friendship broke on the rocks of jealousy: McNutt tried to write the first blueprint for OCD; President Roosevelt, dissatisfied, turned the job over to Coy...