Word: glumness
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Braced by a policeman's arm, Iran's Premier Mohammed Mossadeq tottered from the conference room in Teheran's Saheb Gharanieh Palace. To waiting newsmen he gasped: "No result-it's all over." Behind him trailed the U.S.'s W. Averell Harriman, tired and glum, and Britain's chief negotiator, Richard Stokes, who said: "I have no alternative but to regard the talks as suspended and to go home...
...into charges that Democratic National Chairman Bill Boyle took fees from a St. Louis firm just before it got a big RFC loan (TIME, Aug. 6). He had hurried to defend other cronies when someone said that they had been caught with their morals down. But he kept a glum, tight-lipped silence about Boyle...
...tournaments since 1937. Last year, leading the money winners for the third time, Snead banked $35,758.83. His P.G.A. victory last week was his third (the others: 1942 and 1949), a mark equaled only by Gene Sarazen and bettered only by the great Walter Hagen. Snead is glum when he loses. Last week he was grinning from ear to ear as he signed autographs after his $3,500 victory. The signature: $am $nead...
...crack rowing crew lined up for a race with the best in the East-Harvard, M.I.T. and Boston University. Harvard's Coach Tom Bolles, who had led his 1950 crew to victory in the Grand Challenge Cup races at Henley-on-Thames last summer, was on the glum side. The U.S. crew season had only just opened. He figured his crew could be "about four lengths faster a month from now," since in spring practice Harvard had only managed to log 180 miles. By contrast, Cambridge, in the racing pink, Had logged practice spins of about 850 miles...
Clarence E. Hood Jr., a taciturn and glum-faced lumber dealer, who headed the pro-Truman committee until he was fired in February by Democratic National Chairman Bill Boyle, denied that he knew about job selling, but he did testify that he had used Washington influence peddlers to get lumber contracts with the Government...