Word: goldwynism
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Wherry's words came so fast that he frequently lost control of them. A succession of "Wherryisms" made him the Sam Goldwyn of Capitol Hill. He once promised another Senator "opple amportunity" to make a speech, called Oregon's Junior Senator Wayne Morse "the distinguished Senator from Junior." Other Wherryisms: "Chief Joints of Staff," "bell door ringer...
...looks and a paradoxical combination of beaming boyishness and hairy-chested animal magnetism. He is at once the delight of bobby-soxers, house wives and ordinary song lovers, and the despair of musical highbrows who believe that a great singer's goal should be the Metropolitan, not Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
Born. To Lieut. Samuel Goldwyn Jr., 24, son of Film Producer Sam Goldwyn, and Jennifer Howard, 25, daughter of the late playwright Sidney Coe Howard(They Knew What They Wanted): their first child, a daughter; in Paris (where Lieut. Goldwyn is on General Eisenhower's staff...
...studios have yet decided to start manufacturing films for television audiences. But it looks as though set owners may yet be able to see the products of such big-time independents as Sam Goldwyn and Walt Disney without leaving the living room...
...scenario is out-dated, of course. One revolting scene shows the Goldwyn girls, dressed as WAC's, boarding a troop ship while a band in the background plays a marching song, rousing variety. But most of the way, this story of a hypochondriac in the Army is skillfully handled, from script-writer to Danny Kaye...