Word: everly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Managing Editor Clifton Daniel's shift come as a surprise to many. Ever since Reston took command as executive editor over Daniel in May of 1968, it had been generally assumed that Daniel, 59, would be denied the full editorial control that his predecessor, Turner Catledge, had enjoyed...
Loesser was as single-minded about his work as any compulsive crapshooter. Rising at 5 every morning, he toiled long and hard, pruning his tunes and polishing his words. "For every song I let out," he once said, "there are six in the basket that nobody will ever see." A small (5 ft. 6 in.), tough-talking, chainsmoking man, he reminded some of George Raft, others of a Guys and Dolls bookie. To keep busy in his off hours he took up hobbies (painting, carpentry), and from time to time he expressed the hope that they would help him give...
...battle, four villains ?and one horse?lie punctured and defunct upon the ground. "Dammit, Bo," says Cogburn to his mount as he lies pinned beneath it. "First time ya ever gave me reason to curse...
...along with an advisory from his druggist father. Though it was made in this century, it has the terse ring of orders from Davy Crockett: 1) always keep your word; 2) a gentleman never insults anybody intentionally; 3) don't go around looking for trouble. But if you ever get in a fight, make sure...
...sees it, yesterday was even worse. "With all that leftist activity, I was quite obviously on the other side," he recalls. "I was invited at first to a coupla cell meetings, and I played the lamb to listen to 'em for a while. The only guy that ever fooled me was the di rector Edward Dmytryk. I made a pic ture with him called Back to Bataan...