Word: damn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Never before has a figure of Truman's historical size let down his hair at such candid, colloquial length before so vast an audience. On the Missouri Waltz, he said: "I don't give a damn about it, but I can't say it out loud because it's the song of Missouri. It's as bad as The Star-Spangled Banner so far as music is concerned." A bright-eyed 72 when the film was shot. Truman favored posterity with his sunburst smile and flashes of his shrewdness, wisdom and trove of history...
...president, McElroy still wanted the facts. "Just as he remembers names and faces," says a P. & G. executive, "Mac remembers facts, and woe be to anyone in the Pentagon who doesn't remember that Mac can remember every damn thing he ever saw. He can look at a page with hundreds of figures on it and get to the source of any error. He has the same ability to detect a flaw in an argument...
Married. Richard Adler, 34, Broadway tunesmith, co-author (with the late Jerry Ross) of music and lyrics for the hit shows, The Pajama Game and Damn Yankees; and British Actress Sally Ann Howes, 27, who next month succeeds Julie Andrews as Eliza in My Fair Lady; both for the second time; in Arlington...
Last week, in an open letter that made headlines in every newspaper in Indonesia, Hatta made it perfectly clear that he, too, felt the Dutch must go. But he had nothing but scorn for Sukarno's tactics. Sukarno's policy of dramatics-and-damn-the-consequences was arbitrary, unrealistic and unnecessary. "If people are now forced to starve temporarily, it is the result of crazy steps organized by hot bloods who have done no clear-cut planning. It is not the Indonesian people who should suffer because of the stubbornness of the Dutch government, but the Dutch people...
...Buttrick will urge President Pusey to go gold hunting in South America to strengthen Harvard's financial position. Rev. Buttrick will offer to accompany the President and allow him to use his new gold-divining rod. Ex-Dean Watson will offer to find gold with his IBM machines. "Damn, but those machines are awfully smart. Awfully" he will...