Word: dynamos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...modern art. It was also paying warm tribute to the museum's scholarly director, Dr. Grace L. McCann Morley, 54. A woman who prefers tailored suits, sensible shoes, and wears her hair straight back in a bun, Director Morley, despite her retiring ways, has proved herself a dynamo in action. Her efforts have helped turn San Francisco into one of the nation's most enthusiastic strongholds of modern...
...family into a 1938 Ford station wagon and rattled off to Mexico. They lived in a shack in the jungle near Acapulco, and Sather came down with malaria. "But I have an attack only once a month," he says. "I'm so healthy, I'm a dynamo. I need only four hours' sleep a night." On their way back to Canada, the Sathers visited U.S. museums by day, camped in the fields when darkness fell. The trip took all their remaining funds. Until Sather found his new job, the going was rough...
Cohn, a chunky (5 ft. 8 in., 160 Ibs.), hazel-eyed dynamo type with deceptively sleepy eyelids, carefully slicked hair, is a man of extraordinary talents. Gifted with a sharp, retentive mind and a photographic memory, he also has the innate political cunning of the kingmaker. As Joe's committee counsel, he moves around the room at a dogtrot, speaks like a machine gun. He is relentless with witnesses, scornful of weaknesses, nerveless before criticism, and contemptuous of all Senators on the subcommittee save McCarthy. With good reason, Joe calls Roy Cohn "the most brilliant young fellow I have...
...thriving magazine-subscription service, wrote a column for the student paper Dynamo, and served as its poetry editor. He played a good game of chess, became his fraternity's chaplain, was a member of the Student Christian Association and the social-science honorary society, Pi Gamma Mu. Meanwhile, he majored in history and literature ("The record of humanity is in both"), and in his spare time turned out two volumes of poetry. But what amazed his professors most was his academic record...
Although he handily mastered the mannerisms of the famous comedian-the giddy, stiff-legged Cantor canter, the twittering hands, the O-mouth and popeyed stare-Brasselle could not find in himself the essential thing that makes Eddie run: the dynamo that sends through his audiences a crackle of sympathetic electricity. As a result, the spectator is always conscious that Brasselle is trying to be like Cantor, and cannot decide which performer to be embarrassed for. Besides which, 116 minutes is too long for any take-off to take...