Word: got
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...easy-moving Neil McElroy, 54, got off to a dazzling start as Defense Secretary. Taking over from "Engine Charlie" Wilson in October 1957, five days after the first Soviet Sputnik soared into orbit, he gave the Army a prompt go-ahead to shoot its Jupiter-C into space while the Navy was still fumbling with its Vanguard. He ended the economy ban on overtime work in missile plants, lifted Wilson's numbing hold-down on spending for B-52 bombers, Strategic Air Command fuel, basic research. On orders from President Eisenhower, McElroy worked out and steered through Congress...
...carried by four male dancers, auburn-haired Singer Kirk was spending her evenings last week being carried about the floor, belting out I'm Sitting on Top of the World at the top of her iron lungs. It was corny, it was stagy, and few entertainers could have got away with it. But at the plush Persian Room of Manhattan's Hotel Plaza, Lisa was getting away with it well enough to pack the house twice a night. Supplied with special material by Writer-Husband Bob Wells (a co-producer of Dinah Shore's TV show last...
...chic and vigorous woman of 48 whose specialty for years has been refurbishing the 63 regional offices of St. Paul's Brown & Bigelow with the classy décor suited to the world's biggest manufacturer of advertising calendars and novelties. Last week Yvette Ward got the chance to use her woman's talent for refurbishing on an even grander scale. A week after the death of her husband, B. & B.'s President Charles A. Ward, she moved into his place as president. Hardly had she slipped her trim, horsewoman's figure (124 Ibs.) behind...
Simone was more pious than her mother when she entered parochial school; she received Holy Communion three times a week and tried to practice self-mortification by scrubbing herself raw with pumice. But the day came when her longtime father-confessor charged her with arrogance and disobedience. Simone got flaming mad: "His priest's robe was only a disguise; it covered an old busybody who fed on gossip. With burning face I left the confessional, determined never to set foot in it again...
...human relations (she has been a Harlem prostitute for a year) and chemistry (drinking water, she knows, helps the smoker extract that last bit of nourishment from a reefer). But Lu Ann is a little weak in geography. "Now Man," she says, "you aint gassin me you really got an ocean you can get to on the subway?" Duke Custis, a knife-scarred hard case at 14, knows well enough where the Atlantic is, even has a vague notion that Europe lies somewhere beyond Coney Island. But the boy's world is the three-or-four-street patch...