Word: grins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...School Belt. Tense with anxiety, the British Treasury's gloomy office in Great George Street tried to stop the "run on the bank." Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton, whose toothy grin is almost inextractable, predicted that the run would slow down in August. He was wrong again. Prime Minister Attlee called a Cabinet meeting...
Hoagy Carmichael led the cheering when Old Satchelmouth, his steak-thick lips parted in a grin, stepped on the stand with some of the greatest names in jazz behind him-Clarinetist Barney Bigard, Trombonist Jack Teagarden and Drummer Sid Catlett. Out in the smoke, waiting for the first golden notes, were half the big noises of U.S. sweet & swing-Johnny Mercer, Woody Herman, Abe Lyman, Benny Goodman (see PEOPLE...
This week, with a breezy step, "Big Jake" Kramer marched into the game's sacred shrine at Forest Hills, L.I. He had a big grin and a quick "Hello" for everybody. He also had a brand-new crew haircut. That, he felt, was pretty important. He huffed & puffed through calisthenics, took a turn at rope-skipping, got in a businesslike three-hour practice session on the court...
...Kansas City, he. breakfasted with 150 Kansas and Missouri bigwigs, lunched with 175 more, shook hands with 1,500 lesser fry at a reception in the afternoon. There was a small-hours conference with local professionals, and a dinner given by Kansas Governor Frank Carlson. Dewey admitted with a grin that he and his family "have seen more Republicans in the last five days than I ever thought I would see in my life." Answering a question about the Kansas City vote frauds (TIME, June 16), he took a swipe at Harry Truman: "It is a national story...
That sum might soon be sundae-money to Vic Damone. Like Crooners Sinatra, Perry Como and the late Russ Columbo, Vic is of Italian descent-and he managed to be born & bred in Brooklyn. He has shrewd management and the shyest little catty-cornered grin that ever melted the lipstick off a teenager. He also has a full, lyrical baritone, trimmed with a sense of phrase that Sinatra might envy if it were not so much like his own. Says Vic: "I try to tell a story. I never sing a song the same way twice...