Word: deadpan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dowling, 41, was a quiet, deadpan reporter whose field was war. He started out playing at it with the toy soldiers collected for him all over the world by his famous parents, Actor-Producer Eddie Dowling and Comedienne Ray Dooley. He grew up to make a career of combat. He was in the front lines at Guadalcanal, covered the Allied campaign in New Guinea, watched the Japanese surrender in Manila Bay as a World War II correspondent for the Chicago Sun. He won the Ernie Pyle award in 1946 for distinguished war reporting. Death nearly touched him more than once...
...Aleichem, Babel was a folk artist of the ghetto. To Aleichem (TIME, April 25), the ghetto was as comforting as a mother's lap, and he could always smile through the tears; to Babel it was just a prison cell which he tramped with despairing irony. Laconic and deadpan in style, his autobiographical stories are nonetheless as anguished and personal as a scream...
...Army $8.8 billion, down $50 million. The President's statement that the Army will be organized into smaller, more powerful units, plus the Pentagon's deadpan announcement that Army unit strength "will be different at the end of the year," appears to promise a major reorganization...
Married. Jack Webb, 34, deadpan star (Sergeant Joe Friday) and director of TV's Dragnet; and Dorothy Towne, 25, Hollywood starlet; both for the second time (his first: Cinemactress Julie London); in Chicago...
...movie's best single performance, though, is by the supporting actor who plays the town clerk. Sitting in his store and cheating at checkers all day, he contributes a jovial ghoulishness that contrasts ideally with Robinson's deadpan variety...