Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...humor and enthusiasm, efficiency and drive are inert elements in Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller's chemistry. The catalyst that makes them bubble: an irresistible urge to do big things. Laurance Rockefeller tries to explain it: "Nelson is always working on his environment...
...Blue Books. At 50, Nelson Rockefeller is a grandfather four times but does not look it. His figure is sturdy (5 ft. 10 in., 175 Ibs.), his hair all brown and all there, his broad face handsome, his effect on women voters devastating. He has the endurance and enthusiasm required of a modern candidate; after an 18-hour day, he can look out over a street-corner crowd of 50 and say: "This is terrific. Really wonderful!" He has a sense of humor about his own wealth. Walking down a Brooklyn street recently, he found a dime, stuffed...
...Buttermilk Sky, Hoagy Carmichael (Kapp LP). Even in his rare lyric moments, Singer-Composer Carmichael sounds like a man warbling in a tin shed. In this selection of his songs, mostly from the '40s and '50s, his virtues are manic enthusiasm, an antic rhythmic sense and an endlessly absorbing hobnail accent: "You cain if you tray-a-y/ . . . Ole buttermilk...
...from an early age. "I was almost born in Nantucket--missed it by three weeks. My family and I have always frequented the place." And when the wind blows cold and slush piles up along the coast, Labaree takes to the New England hills and skis ("with more enthusiasm than skill, I'm afraid...
Scramble of the Experts. The U.S. took up contract bridge with wild and alarming enthusiasm. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, newspapers reported bridge divorces, bridge assault-and-battery cases, even bridge deaths. Cartoonist H. T. Webster recorded bridge players' foibles in a long and memorable series. A North Carolina addict swore to shoot the next man who dealt him a bad hand, dealt himself a bust-and promptly shot himself to death. In Kansas City, Mo. in 1929, Housewife Myrtle Bennett committed one of the decade's most headlined homicides by shooting her husband after...