Word: dame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington newshen bustled up to Vice President Alben Barkley and asked coyly: "Veep, my editor would like to know what La Dame Hadley has that we don't have-except maybe you?" Barkley promptly seized good-looking, thirtyish Ruth Montgomery and bussed her smack on the lips. "There is your answer, kid!" cried the Veep. Chortling, he added: "I'll tell you something you've got that she hasn't got-a husband...
...Then you know in a minute if you're bad." Among the players who have kept the audiences paying for Broadway revivals: Eve Arden, Barry Sullivan, Ruth Hussey, Guy Madison, Diana Lynn, Sylvia Sidney, Reginald Denny, Jane Cowl Ann Harding, Laraine Day, Martha Scott the late Dame May Whitty...
...even to get her name in the cramped newspapers. But in socialist Britain, royalty's duty is the same as it has been: to set an example of good manners to every class. It is Princess Margaret's particular task to extend her hand to passee old Dame Society, and make it seem that everyone is having a ripping time at her parties. Newspapers write about a party that Margaret goes to; they report her every dance, her every glance, her every girlish gesture. Shopgirls and Mayfair matrons read the story and-for just a moment-austerity England...
...critics complain that Stern's casualness about facts sometimes carries over into his straight announcing chores. At one Notre Dame football game Stern announced that a player named Zilly was off on an 80-yard run. As the ball carrier passed the five-yard line, Stern discovered that the incipient hero was actually named Sitko. With scarcely a fractional pause, Stern cried: "Zilly's just thrown a lateral to Sitko!" Sportcaster Ted Husing was still brooding about this when Stern, before starting his current racetrack telecasts from Belmont Park, asked him for pointers. "I can't help...
...majors in Government at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He received a degree from the Law School last year, four years after being graduated from Notre Dame. O'Dea practices law in Lowell, where in also serves as Supreme Court clerk. He is chairman of the Lowell chapter of the ADA and belongs...