Word: fingerings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...McCormack delivered an insult that is still recalled whenever Congressmen trade stories. "I would defend the Gentleman," he said, in a mockery of the politest parliamentary style, "because I have a minimum high regard for him." Once he called Republican Floor Leader Charles Halleck a "hijacker," and stuck his finger into Halleck's jowl for emphasis. But Indiana's Halleck comes from another hard political school, and he understands McCormack. "John McCormack," he says, "always was a worthy and formidable antagonist, who fought hard-and fair...
...columns-linked with various women in recent months, including Dorothy Provine and Marilyn Monroe. But, said he gallantly last week, "Juliet has been my one romance. She has accepted my proposal of marriage." At a quiet dinner at Romanoff's, he slipped a ring on Juliet's finger-"a beauty." friends reported, "not the usual Hollywood blockbuster." Unmarried since his 1957 divorce from Ava Gardner, Sinatra admitted...
Slightly Prostituted. Judgment at Nuremberg is Schell's second American film (he played a hobnail-minded Nazi officer in The Young Lions), and he has since completed two more: he is the German tutor in the film version of Five Finger Exercise, and he plays the i?th century...
Seeing in his 86th birthday with a flute of champagne, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer received a baroque stone bench from the man perennially most likely to succeed him. Toasted Vice Chancellor Ludwig Erhard, eliciting a faint smile and a wag of der Alte's steady old finger: "In order to forestall any bad jokes, I should say that this gift is not for use in retirement but for your relaxation...
...Spanish air force hospital for his first in-patient treatment since 1916, when Riff rebels wounded him in the stomach in Spanish Morocco. At the hospital, Spain's top surgeons removed fragments of Franco's gun and shooting glove from his hand, saved his badly torn index finger. Three days later, despite continuing pain, the portly chief of state was back in the palace, polishing up his year-end broadcast to his subjects...