Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After artfully staying out of the public eye most of the time since their marriage nine weeks ago, Old (53) Groaner Bing Crosby and his bride, Cinemorsel Kathy (Operation Mad Ball) Grant, 24, ventured forth in Sunday best for the Hollywood premiere of The Bridge on the River Kwai. Brainy Kathy, a qualified cook by virtue of a college home-economics course, disclosed that she is now studying chemistry because, "I was a fine arts major [University of Texas], and I feel I have neglected the physical sciences. It's very good mental discipline...
...came to light when the priest of the Church of Lucignano d'Arbia in Monteroni, eight miles from Siena, called in restorers to repair the undistinguished painting that for centuries had hung over the main altar. Preliminary cleaning flaked away the overpainting, revealed a lovely eye, "long, sweet and melancholy." Shipped to Rome's Restoration Institute, the painting has been carefully worked over for the past seven months. The Madonna which emerged, with amaranth-red robe, gilt-edged blue veil and glittering gold medallion is judged by critics the finest Martini oil painting known. Nonagenarian Renaissance Critic Bernard...
...married twice. It was no fault of [my first wife] that our marriage collapsed. I am survived by my second wife, and one small, redheaded, beautiful daughter who was the apple of her daddy's eye. Her name is Laurel...
...danced or chanted, a lot of production numbers seem spieled or shilled; they have a contagious carnival air, a ballyhoo rhythm. Opening with a jingly, jabbery railroad-car recitative of traveling salesmen, the show soon catapults Actor Preston into River City. There he first catches the town's eye with a kind of stylish evangelical pitch called Trouble, then clutches the town by the lapels with a rousing Seventy Six Trombones. Later in a gay, public-library ballet, Preston soft-shoes a hard sell of love-making to the librarian. Number after number-street gossipers, the arrival of cornets...
...problem drinkers. Last year they cost U.S. industry more than $1 billion and 13 million man-hours lost through absenteeism (average: 22 days), slowdowns, inefficiency, accidents and loss of trained personnel. Time was when industry ferreted out such workers and fired them. Today the boss still keeps a close eye out for the problem drinker, but it is more often to help than to fire him. Faced with new understanding of alcoholism as a mental illness-and with a nationwide shortage of trained workers-more and more companies are trying to reclaim the problem drinker for productive work...