Word: creditably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...overwhelming majority of the key reporters and pundits who write the day-to-day political stories for U.S. newspapers, radio and television are down-the-line liberal Democrats. To their professional credit, they did not permit their pro-Democratic bias to control their predictions of what would happen on Election Day. In general, the reporting-punditing press previewed the 1958 elections with considerable prescience and quite a lot of caution. They had the trend right, but in the main they were either unwilling to make specific forecasts or they underestimated the size of the Democratic sweep...
Everything else in Hollywood may change, but after 23 years at work, Russell Birdwell, 55, remains the flashiest flack in the business-the man who happily takes credit for inventing Jane Russell, rescuing Norma Shearer from being treated like a superannuated widow, nearly succeeding in making Rumania's ex-King Carol popular. To launch unknown, 25-year-old Diane Hartman (Birdwell calls her 22) in that white silk rig, he has concocted some accompanying ad copy to the effect that Hollywood is empty of female glamour-except, of course, for Diane, who is described thus: "An untamed animal...
...CREDIT-CARD REVOLT against 7% commission paid to credit organizations will be led by National Restaurant Association. Members protest that commissions are forcing price rises that hurt business. Restaurant Association is considering issuing own credit cards, charging members only 3½% commission...
...Chief credit clearly belongs to Mervyn (Quo Vadis, No Time for Sergeants) Le-Roy, the old Hollywood pro who directed the picture. Under his skillful guidance. Actress Simmons gives one of her most sensitive and graceful performances. And even Rhonda Fleming has been persuaded to make a variety of facial expressions that generally accord with what she is saying. But Dan O'Herlihy steals the show with one of the year's finest screen performances. Limited, insensitive, frightened, petty, penny-pinching, pompous, ambitious, but with it all somehow trying to be decent, trying to be kind, the husband...
...course, Pennsylvania deserves much credit for producing some very good football on Saturday. Prior to the game, the Quakers had been reported in rather bad shape--both physically and in terms of team morale. Right from the start, however, their play belied these rumors...