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Word: guesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...revealingly pensive mood, Old Groaner Bing Crosby, 54, crooned some honest parental doubts to the New York Herald Tribune's Hollywoodsman Joe Hyams. "I guess I didn't do very well in bringing my boys up," brooded Bing. "I think I failed them by giving them too much work and discipline, too much money, and too little time and attention. I never had much success talking with them. The thing is, it burns me up when they won't listen to me." To the four Crosby cutups (Gary, 25, Twins Philip and Dennis, 24, Lindsay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 13, 1959 | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

...just lucky, I guess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGHTCLUBS: Ham & Legs | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

...imperfectly forward-but it does move. Said a Western observer to a TIME correspondent in Colombo last week: "It's utterly chaotic, and yet I'm less worried about Ceylon today than I was a year ago. If the Ceylonese have learned anything from the British, I guess it is the art of muddling through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CEYLON: The Muddler | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...turning a profit from publishing as a 16-year-old clerk for a New York judge. When the judge got control of the floundering Bayonne (N.J.) Times, he gave Newhouse a try at running the show. Within a year Newhouse had whipped the Times into the black ("I guess I was a pretty brash kid"). In 1922 he drummed up $98,000 and bought the Staten Island Advance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Present for Mitzie | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

Amorality. Who could seem sweeter than Joan? When she steps off the plane from Denver to meet her fiance, she looks like the all-American girl, and any bystander would guess that her soul is as spotless as her nylon underwear is sure to be. Carl Dickson, a young ad man with thoughts that seem old for his age, has decided to marry Joan because, at 26, he is already suffering from the roué's punishment: boredom with compulsive conquest, disgust with predictable passion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: So Young, So False | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

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