Word: cracked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite an impressive contingent of crack newsmen-among them Damon Runyon, Courtney Ryley Cooper, Burns Mantle and Gene Fowler-the paper read like a circus flyer. For an editorial page, Tammen and Bonfils substituted invective, raked up so much scandal-a good deal of it true-that they kept a loaded shotgun in their office to discourage reader complaints. As the Post grew in power and prosperity, its proprietors branched into other fields; the Post became the first and last U.S. daily ever to own a circus (Sells-Floto), run a burlesque house and sell coal...
...Ground-controlled alternate firings of the forward and rearward engines are calculated to keep the orbiters on the right course, ease them into moon orbit at a speed of 5.000 ft. per sec. If the first shot works. S.T.L. may use its second or biter for a long-range crack at Venus which will be in a fairly good position next January...
When he recovered, Malinovsky was assigned to the Iron Division, a crack Czarist outfit sent to France as a symbol of Allied solidarity. In France, Malinovsky acquired respect for British troops-"Ah, those British! Always smoking their pipes, even during an attack!"-and a sneaking liking for Americans: "The Russians and the Americans got along together, especially when it came to having a drink or smashing glasses in a café." But his fondest memories are of "those French girls." In Paris last week, he confided that the three phrases he could still manage in both English and French were...
...Crack in the Mirror (20th Century-Fox) was produced by Darryl Zanuck, a great man for the special angle. As production boss of 20th Century-Fox, he made plenty of splash and cash with controversial pictures about insanity (The Snake Pit), anti-Semitism (Gentlemen's Agreement) and the color line (Pinky). Since setting up as an independent producer, he has made or sponsored films about interracial romance (Island in the Sun), impotence (The Sun Also Rises), homosexuality (Compulsion), and a man who was crazy about elephants (The Roots of Heaven). In Crack in the Mirror, a murder meller made...
...fashion shows and candlelight musicales. at "Meet the Maestro'' luncheons and "Sympho-neve" dances. He has been known to turn his baton over in midconcert to civic-minded businessmen and, in one case, to a seven-year-old child. To warm an audience up, he may crack jokes between numbers or invite it to join him in singing The Star-Spangled Banner. Last week hard-selling Conductor Katims staged a concert titled "Composium Nineteen-Sixty," featuring works of five resident Seattle composers. Most of the works were pleasantly melodic exercises, more impressive for technique than for originality...