Word: frail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...neighbors' pitiless young. Kate took to shaving her head every summer so as to give her playmates less of a hand-hold when they locked in combat. One day, a cattily candid friend remarked to Mrs. Hepburn that it was a pity Kate was such a frail child. Kate, seeing through the pity to the insult, charged across the lawn and hurled herself headlong against a tree. If that wasn't a sufficient answer, Kate figured it should have been...
Social Position: Managed to make her mark in the circles in which she wandered, always a little frail and aloof, making herself liked by the people she wanted to be liked by, and often unpopular with the rest. Friend of writers and critics like Cyril (Enemies of Promise) Connolly and Peter Quennell, able to talk to them in their own jargon, yet without convincing anyone of her profundity. As flip, smartly turned out professional journalist, got to know Orson Welles, Greta Garbo, Cecil Beaton (who lent her a cottage on his Wiltshire grounds). Although needing no introduction to high society...
...artistic talent of Louis Patton, then twelve years old, attracted the attention of a West Hartford, Conn, newspaper. Though frail and shy, Louis seemed ambitious, told the paper that he was willing to try anything-"soda jerking, maybe"-to earn enough money for a trip to Hollywood, where he wanted to work for Walt Disney. Four years later, when he was 16, Louis dropped out of high school. Explained his father, Orall Patton: "Louis couldn't stand the drinking by the high-school boys, especially their breath...
...dull season of summer TV replacements, one new show last week was giving televiewers a pleasant tingling in the funny bone. The program: Mr. Peepers (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., NBC), a weekly half hour devoted to the mild misadventures of a frail, bespectacled little high-school science teacher, played by Funnyman Wally...
...That frail, slow-moving mechanism, the human fighter pilot, is becoming obsolete. At the flashing speeds of the latest fighter planes, his senses cannot absorb and his brain cannot process the information that is necessary to shoot down an enemy. It is U.S. Air Force doctrine (and presumably Russian doctrine too) that, sooner or later, human pilots must be supplanted by electronic senses and brains that can do a faster, better...