Word: elfin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mixed Methods. Even children were taught to cheat. The probing Congressmen summoned Child Actress Patty (The Miracle Worker) Duke, a Challenge champ. Her manager, John Ross, testified that answers were fed to her by Associate Producer Shirley Bernstein, 36, sister of Conductor Leonard Bernstein. In the popular-music category, elfin Patty tied with Child Actor Eddie (The Music Man) Hodges, 12, split $64,000 with him.* Manager Ross admitted that he gave $1,000 of his share to the show's "People-Getter" Irving Harris, pocketed $3,800 of Patty's prize himself as his manager...
...weekly fascination begins when one of the daintiest (5 ft. 3½ in., 87 Ibs.) of fairies, 14-year-old Brigid Mary Bazlen, floats into view on elfin wings. Waiting for her. seated on imitation mushrooms in the Blue Forest, are half a dozen moppets. Brigid sings her charges a song, offers a quiet moral (letter writing is a good thing), and manages to keep her wings on even when things go a little wrong, as they did when one recent guest announced plainly: "I hate you. Blue Fairy...
...highlight of the tour proved to be a subtle blend of Occident and Orient: the world premiere in Madras, India, of Symphony No. 13 by California-born Henry Cowell, a composer who has perched for many of his 62 years like an elfin Janus atop the steep divide between Eastern and Western music...
...Andorra, the tiny domain perched in the Pyrenees, between France and Spain. An ex-reporter for U.P. and a magazine writer, Sack employs a racily frenetic style, e.g., using "chugalug" as a verb meaning to drink and "crackajack" as an adjective meaning excellent, and is often as determinedly elfin as Tchico, the dog ghost of Sark. In rating the 13 microcosmic spots he visited, Sack gives highest honors to San Marino, the mountaintop republic in Italy, and second place to polo-playing Punial, a small state near Kashmir. Readers may find the book too whimsy-whamsy to be described...
...highly successful potpourri of sense and nonsense. For prekindergarten children, there are songs and games, puppets and magic; for mothers, there are health tips and stretch-the-budget menus. For late-rising males, who write her lots of letters, there is the elfin charm and shining morning face of Shari Lewis herself...