Word: grinningly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vincent Auriol, who speaks French with a Toulouse twang and English hardly at all, and Harry Truman, who speaks English with a Missouri twang and French not at all, grinned broadly and shook hands warmly when they met in the vaulted State Room of Washington's Union Station. Five prodigious days of partygoing, personal appearances and stiff protocol failed to erase either presidential grin...
...weekly press conference next day, newsmen were hipped on somewhat the same subject. The President's grin vanished with the first searing question. "I wonder," said a reporter, "whether you'd care to comment on the testimony by former Mayor O'Dwyer that he appointed to office friends and relatives of gangsters?" The President said coldly that he had no comment. "Is any change contemplated in his status as ambassador?" Harry Truman shot back a crackling...
Boris Pascuniak's sensitive directing keeps the story probable and well-paced; he is helped out a great deal by a delightfully pastoral musical score by Bonar Gillis. The acting, unfortunately, is less competent. Jane Cruikshank plays the Snopes daughter with a sheepish grin, while Basil Mange is never convincing as the anthropologist-congressman who finally settles the inter-racial strife. "North Forty's" technicolor sheep are wonderfuly convincing, however, and they leave the moviegoer with a true sensation of the Old West...
Appearance: Wears plain, ready-made suits and an almost perpetual grin, been described as Socialism's happy pixie. He has an obstinate cowlick that hangs over his forehead. Complained Tory M.P. Sir Waldron Smithers last week: never brushes his hair or gets it cut. How can he get abroad and win that respect or give that leadership which is so necessary if this country is to survive...
...like a fugitive from an Ivy League library than a nightclub entertainer. As he picks up the beat of Happy Go Lucky or It's a Lovely Day, he bounces on the balls of his feet, catches his thumbs in his trouser pockets and flashes a boyishly toothy grin. With his air of the self-satisfied sophomore, 26-year-old Russell Nype has made quite a name for himself in the entertainment world...