Word: finds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...find it inconceivable, bordering on pigheadedness, that ex-Defense Secretary Charles Wilson, when making decisions affecting the national security of the U.S., "never had much to do with" Tactician and Strategist Lieut. General James Gavin...
...bounced off the air for downright crookedness, see SHOW BUSINESS, Scandal of the Quizzes. That story follows other reports by TIME'S new section that have won high readership ratings since it started three weeks ago. Among them: last week's piece on the agents who find and coach quiz-show contestants, which served as an appropriate curtain raiser to the Dotto affair; the story on Frank Sinatra's invasion of Madison, Ind., which became the talk of show people; and the Jack Paar cover story, which helped set an all-TIME circulation high for the issue...
...least 14 American artists have recorded an Americanized version of the song with a new title, Volare (To Fly), and new lyrics that bear as little resemblance to the original as they do to poetry. Sample: "Just like birds of a feather, a rainbow together we'll find." When they call their favorite disk jockey, U.S. fans hardly know what to ask for. But whether the title comes out "Domingo," "Nelly Blue" or "Blue Nell Rides a Blue Pinto," even a monolingual jock knows enough to spin...
...rock 'n' roll, Domenico still managed to save some memory of the guitars and ritual-dance rhythms of his gypsy ancestors. The freshness of his singing, the unlettered freedom of his song itself are probably due in part to the fact that he has yet to find time to learn to read or write music. His father taught him simple tunes when he was still a barefoot boy barely as big as his guitar. He composed his first song at 14, has been playing ever since...
...first book, the madwoman of Beekman Place was getting on toward 60 and past her best years (although she would not have admitted it). Clearly Author Dennis (real name: Edward Everett Tanner III) had to backtrack and find a more youthful Mame. Deftly he discovered a hitherto overlooked interlude. It seems that between the time Mame's nephew Patrick was kicked out of St. Boniface Academy in Apathy, Mass. and the time he entered college and the brawny embrace of Bubbles, the waitress, there was a broadening period of travel...