Word: friendly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nothing-even after they had called the victim himself for help. Highly amused, A.J. told the News Chronicle to give Beaver's boys anything they wanted. When the Standard finally got its editorial blast together, the unpredictable Beaver objected that it didn't give his old personal friend and political enemy his due as a journalist. The more Lord Beaverbrook thought about it, the greater journalist Cummings became...
...Whistles. Then there were the performers themselves: "How come somebody doesn't. . . instruct certain of those hamfats in the ABCs of stage deportment? . . . 'Watching a love scene at the Met [wrote Billy, quoting a friend] is like seeing Gone With the Wind with Sydney Greenstreet playing Rhett Butler and Sophie Tucker as Scarlett O'Hara . . .' My suggestion is that we interview the fatsos one by one . . . and suggest they consult a doctor. Of course, great singers like Melchior and Traubel should be kept regardless of heft, but minor singers could be given a year...
...WASHINGTON, WMAL-TV celebrated the lifting of an FCC ban by presenting "Mentalist" Robert L. Friend. In short order, he reduced three giggling university coeds to a trance-like state (a fourth coed continued to giggle and was excused). Hypnotist Friend, who was careful not to beam his big, brown eyes at the television audience,* will not do another hypnotic show, he says, until televiewers "clamor and clamor and clamor...
Died. Juliana Force, 67, autocratic director of New York's Whitney Museum of American Art, longtime good angel to struggling U.S. artists; after long illness; in Manhattan. As friend and secretary to Sculptress-Art Patroness Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, she began to buy and exhibit promising paintings in 1908, turned the Whitney's annual exhibition into a bellwether of contemporary U.S. painting...
...even of a single volume) without making it seem ridiculous. The books have to do with the adventures of a Socialist hero named Lanny Budd, the illegitimate son of a Connecticut arms manufacturer, born in Paris and educated in Europe, wealthy, handsome, courageous, sensitive, gifted and a true friend of the workingman...