Word: downrightness
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...lady. What happened next seems, as Author Kronenberger says, "too much in the flashy traditions of the theater to have happened in real life." Slowly, week by week, Abigail, the dowdy waif, replaced Sarah as the dowdy Queen's bosom friend-largely because Sarah had become haughty and downright rude to the Queen. When Sarah at last discovered that the ungrateful "dust broom" had swept her off the royal doorstep, she pelted the Queen with abuse, venting her spleen in "thunderclaps of fury and rage." Before a horrified crowd, she quarreled with her on the very steps...
...quiz shows fixed? The question agitates millions of TV viewers to whom the mind-rending programs have become not only a favorite pastime but almost a national institution. For an inside account of how one of the shows-the popular Dotto-was bounced off the air for downright crookedness, see SHOW BUSINESS, Scandal of the Quizzes. That story follows other reports by TIME'S new section that have won high readership ratings since it started three weeks ago. Among them: last week's piece on the agents who find and coach quiz-show contestants, which served...
...televised blurbs, so understated at first that it was sometimes hard to tell what was being advertised, are now couched largely in such hard-sell terms that they seem downright un-British. But there is still an undertone of restraint; e.g., amidst a bunch of filmed interviews with housewives who swear by a detergent called Omo, the British admen have included one housewife who candidly states that she does not use Omo, has no intention of ever trying it. Makes it seem more authentic, they explain...
...both the Federal Trade Commission and the Food and Drug Administration occasionally have to step in. FTC allows harmless puffs-"ours is best"-draws the line at "youth-reviving creams" and at any inference that cells can be reborn by potions. Not only are claims sometimes false, but products downright harmful. The FDA recently ordered Ten-Day Press-On Nail Polish off the market in several states after 700 women complained that it made their nails split and break...
...fame was a record as a pal of six-bit Gangster Mickey Cohen. Johnny and Lana had traveled Europe together, spent two months in Mexico. But upon their return Lana began, as a Beverly Hills cop delicately put it last week, trying to "discourage his attendons." Johnny Stompanato got downright annoyed...