Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lewis Gruber is a crack salesman whose single, all-consuming passion is tobacco. There is little else he can talk about, little else that interests him. When dining in Manhattan restaurants, he passes out Kents to neighboring tables. At poker and pinochle (he is an indifferent player), he shuffles out samples of new cigarette blends for informal taste polls. His other pleasures are simple, though his tastes are rich. He dresses expensively, favors dark blue suits and blue or grey silk ties that blend well with his heavy-lidded, blue-grey eyes, tans his skin under a sun lamp, plays...
...according to his lights, left the youngsters plenty to work with. They had a $6,000,000 production nut to crack, along with "a million-two" ($1,200,000) set aside for promotion. They had Vista-Vision, Technicolor, five big stars (Charles Boyer, Charlton Heston, Claire Bloom, Inger Stevens and the berugged Brynner), 55 featured players, 100 bit-players, 12,000 calls for extras, 60,000 props-including 15 authentic pirogues, $100,000 worth of genuine antique furniture and two boxcarloads of Spanish moss and cypress trees. Not to overlook one of the best true-adventure stories in American history...
...play was a surprise to Miami theatergoers (who may be the only ones to see it; Williams is still undecided about taking it to Broadway), in its own way it was a revelation to the author. For the first time Playwright Williams decided to take a crack at directing his own work, gave up the reins midway through rehearsals when he concluded sadly: "I can't direct my way out of a paper...
...argument that in a year when House Republicans are in so great a minority, the only tactics that will earn the Party any sort of national respect are those of compromise, which Martin had so perfected. As Martin said Tuesday, "You don't give the other fellow a crack on the jaw... when he has more votes." Halleck was elected as the jaw-cracking type...
After V-E day, George wanted to dine with Stalin in Berlin, but Montgomery put his foot down. Monty would not guarantee his safety. But there is probably no truth in the legend (which, of course, an official biographer does not mention) of George's crack about Monty. "Sir," said General Eisenhower, "I have to tell you that I hear Montgomery is after my job." "Relieved to hear it," said George VI. "I thought he wanted mine...