Word: gush
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...named Jennie Smith. In the year and a half since she graduated from high school in Charleston. W. Va. (pop. 75,000), Jennie, who looks like the second-prettiest girl at a high-school prom, has taken on a new name (old one: Jo Ann Kristof), learned to gush cute quotes ("I'm crazy about mustard sandwiches ... I sing sad songs saddest when I'm happy") and do a very fair imitation of throaty, top-ranking Jazz Singer June Christy. To the tub-thumping rhythm of an intense promotional campaign by RCA Victor, Jennie just finished a month...
What Jim Bishop is doing is writing a new thrice-weekly newspaper column that, as Hearst's King Features Syndicate explains with a gush, "opens to readers his heart-warming world of laughter, love and tears." The column, "Jim Bishop: Reporter," is already running in 66 dailies. It has landed Bishop a contract that, with other assignments for the Hearst press, guarantees him a minimum $65,000 a year, has earned him syndicate billing as "The HOTTEST Writer in America" and the opportunity to "go anywhere, write anything...
Died. Clifford Mooers, 67, horse breeder and onetime Alaska gold prospector, dirt-track auto racer, World War I flyer, lawyer and oil wildcatter, who settled down to horse racing after his wells started to gush, hit the big time fast (1949) when his Old Rockport went to post at 33 to 1, copped the $141,800 Santa Anita Derby; between planes at New York's LaGuardia Field, en route from Kentucky to Pawtucket. R.I., to see one of his horses at Narragansett Park...
Inspection in the Bath. In Paris, tiny (4 ft. 10 in.), trim Hattie was a reigning queen. At the ateliers of the top designers, her slightest show of interest made heady columns of news in Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. (In later years she learned to gush at the models that bored her, and to look bored at those she intended to promote.) Her suite at the Ritz was invariably a bedlam, with delivery boys, salesmen and hatboxes filling up the living room; Hattie herself sometimes held forth in the bathtub, shrewdly appraising the hats and accessories that were...
...well be disturbed by the recollection of young Adlai in an Eton collar-though it is carefully explained that he did not like it. And yet, on the whole, Mrs. Elizabeth ("Buffie") Stevenson Ives. wife of Career Diplomat Ernest Ives (now retired), has managed to avoid both sisterly gush and campaign-year platitudes. Author Ives was helped by a professional magazine writer. Hildegarde Dolson, but the book shows an authentic freshness. Buffie also displays a wry humor, as when she tells of the Republican friend who suggested she call the book The Egghead...