Word: dapper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...himself, little, chubby and dapper, sports monogrammed shirts and a calm, businesslike air. "I lead a very regular, normal life," he told a reporter, "I work every day from 6 a.m. to nightfall. At noon, before lunch, I take half an hour's physical exercise." After a reflective pause he added: "Outwardly I am perfectly calm, but internally I'm boiling...
...courtroom atmosphere was festive rather than grim. In marked contrast with the duchess' last trial (at which she was sentenced to a year in jail-TIME, Jan. 10, 1949), there were no Tommy-gun-toting guards, no uniformed cops. The presiding judge was affable, dapper Major General Miguel Rodrigo, 54-year-old commander of Spain's one & only armored division. General Rodrigo had tried to persuade Madrid's military governor that there were no legal grounds for a trial...
Flubbing an 8-ft. putt which means a new course record and a long head start toward some big prize money would make most golfers look as glum as a sturgeon. But when it happened to dapper Lloyd Mangrum at Wykagyl Golf Course in New Rochelle, N.Y. last week, he just grinned and acted like a sweepstakes winner with his money in the bank...
...Senate race, handsome Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas, 49, campaigning by helicopter, captured the Democratic nomination as a hot & heavy Fair Dealer. She beat out dapper, conservative Manchester Boddy, publisher of the Los Angeles Daily News. But winning in November would not be so easy. Her Republican opponent will be Congressman Richard Nixon, 37, a member of the House Un-American Activities Committee, and best known for his bloodhound pursuit of Alger Hiss. On the basis of their total primary votes, Congressman Nixon appeared to be a little out ahead of Congresswoman Douglas...
...Hirakawa, the Arthur Godfrey of Japanese radio, gets such enthusiastic letters from some of his 1,250,000 fans that he had to remind one admirer: "The war is over, and writing letters in your own blood is undemocratic." Like his burly U.S. counterpart, dapper, 48-year-old Joe Hirakawa is continually swamped with presents: hand-knitted sweaters, fresh vegetables, wine, porcelain vases. "It's wonderful," he sighs. "Not what they send but the consideration behind...