Word: gladding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...delight of nocturnal listeners from coast to coast, NBC-TV's glad-libber Steve Allen, 32, met his match and more when septuagenarian Poet-Biographer Carl Sandburg dropped in for a scheduled 15-minute interview on Allen's midnight show. Looking as mild and mischievous as Grandma Moses in a barroom, the weathered old buckeye bard casually ignored the time limit on his stint, brushed aside his M.C.'s good-nights and thank-yous, stayed on happily ad-libbing, reading, reciting and singing for the full hour that remained of the show. Asked by the harassed Allen...
That picture of the Indo-Chinese women greeting the Viet Minh in Hanoi looks more like a national convention of tombstone gazers than a glad-hand welcoming committee. Ho Chi Minh and his henchmen would probably shudder with fear if they could properly analyze and interpret the facial expressions of these sad-looking souls...
...advancing Russians. Churchill was serious, pale and penitent. Shaking his head remorsefully, he confessed that when he made the statement (TIME, Dec. 6), he was "under the rooted impression" that the telegram had been published in his war memoirs. As for the text: "Indeed, I should be very glad to give that to the House-when I find it . . . Indeed, it may be . . . that it was never sent at all. At any rate, it has not been traced in the official records though a search of the utmost extent has been made." Consequently, said Churchill, "I express my regrets...
...investment company. He had no trouble raising money. Was he not the son of Major Reginald Baker, well known as a cinema magnate and managing director of Baling Studios? Wealthy Sir Bernard Docker and Sir John Mann contributed financial backing, Viscount Astor and Major Henry Legge-Bourke, M.P., were glad to serve on his board of directors. Soon Peter had 18 companies, ranging from Edinburgh to London...
Football & Four Roses. T.N.T. was started just five years ago by Nathan Halpern, a University of Southern California graduate who worked as assistant to CBS President Frank Stanton before deciding to go into closed-circuit TV. He thought that movie theaters would be glad to get back some of the customers they had lost...