Word: exhibited
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meaning of hypocrisy. Did his heroes exalt the virtues of loyalty? So did the man who became known as "Pappy." He used such players as Ward Bond, Victor McLaglen and Harry Carey Jr. so frequently that they became known as the Ford Stock Company. Did his leading men exhibit an austere devotion to their wimmenfolk? The devout Catholic took particular pride in his long marriage to an Irish sweetheart, Mary McBryde Smith. Were Ford characters patriots? When World War II came along, despite a personal battle with blindness, Ford volunteered for overseas duty. He directed the Navy's film...
Happy Home. Many of the youths exhibit surprising dedication. Pilferage runs only about $30 per month per outlet, a percentage of sales far below the average for all retailing. Wade Litchenberg, 18, a night manager in Fort Lauderdale, describes his job as "a real challenge. I love it-meeting people, learning all about the business." Says Lynnette Myers, 18, of Jackson, Miss.: "It's a happy place to work. It's my home away from home...
...metal gateway poles hung with red-and-blue banners. You leave behind inflation, traffic jams, Watergate and the impending struggle of the autumn harvest. Ahead of you, the Ferris wheel arcs into the blue sky over beyond the livestock barns; a lemon-shake stand squeezes between a tractor exhibit and the milking parlor; on your left, the Pleasantville Community School stage band is warming up for a concert, and over there, an hour from now, the quilt-making demonstrations will begin. Pick up some cotton candy along...
...days of radio." He invests radio with almost mystical powers: "On TV, you're as big as your budget. With radio, you're as big as the imagination of the listener. You can be as big as you want to be." For which statement Wolfman Jack is Exhibit...
...intended to be "a famous movie star" but gave it up after only six weeks of trying to be an actress in New York. Over the next few years, she worked as a go-go girl, a public relations agent for a Coney Island animal husbandry exhibit, and social secretary to the Algerian Ambassador in Washington. The story of her subsequent hiring by the Washington Post may contain a moral for those who would make too much of her present lack of background in TV. "Can you show me something you've written?" asked Managing Editor Benjamin Bradlee...