Word: fella
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Most Happy Fella. A product spread that puts Maremont into items ranging from tail pipes to microwave antennas might seem too diverse to manage, but it suits the wide-ranging interests of the company's president. In addition to running 87-year-old Maremont, which was founded by his father, he has interests in paper and in a maker of Christmas-tree balls, has backed a Broadway musical (The Most Happy Fella), and owns a chunk of the Saturday Review. His collection of modern art contains Dubuffet, Braque, Leger, Gris, Pollock, Arp and Kline, is valued at more than...
...Said Lady Bird: "You are both the victim and the friend of nature. It is something to see Lyndon in combat with the land. The land is unrelenting. He is unrelenting." Johnson mounted a frisky filly and helped cut calves from the herd. An old cowhand, watching, said: "That fella's been in the saddle afore." Just then the pony skittered, Lyndon lost a stirrup and grabbed for the pommel. The old fellow added with a twinkle: ". . . but not fer some time...
...Senators?" With professional nonchalance, Valachi detailed hits (murders) he had a hand in, punctuated his scrambled syntax ("There was this fella named which he died a long time ago") with a solicitous "got dat clear, Senators?" They sometimes had not. Cried South Dakota Republican Karl Mundt at one murky point: "You're getting me all confused. It sounds like a Chinese chess game...
...remains adamant in his denials. "I'm not going to be a candidate. I'm not going to seek the nomination. I'm not going to become part of any 'stop' movement." Sighs a Republican who favors him: "It's tough when a fella's got the attitude...
...that kind of croonin', chum," sloshed Frank Sinatra, 45, in High Society's drunk scene. "You must be one of the newer fellas," riposted Bing Crosby, 59. That was in 1956. Since then the newer fella has formed his own record company and that kind of croonin' now sounds with the ring of new-minted coin. So in his first long-term record contract since Decca days seven years ago, Bing will do a five-year hitch on Frankie's Reprise label. Beamed Sinatra after a recording session: "With Crosby, we've got it made...