Word: guys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ingratiate himself at newspaper drama desks. To his pastor, the Rev. Ralph Bertholf, he was a pillar of suburban Wakefield's First Baptist Church, a well-favored Sunday-school teacher and editor of the church's paper, Tall Spire. To everyone else, he was a friendly guy who looked much younger than his years, liked a drink now & then, foisted neither his religion nor his politics (whatever they were) on anybody...
...DiMaggio, and both were slowing down. On top of that, DiMaggio's right heel had not healed to his satisfaction after last fall's operation for a bone spur. Said DiMag last week: "There's no use kidding anybody, my heel still hurts." Without the big guy, the Yankees would be in peril of the second division; even with him, they would be lucky to stay ahead of 86-year-old Connie Mack's young, ambitious Philadelphia Athletics...
South Pacific, Rodgers' music provides only a score, not a scaffolding. The score has its very decided merits: there are the bang and the brio of I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair and I'm in Love With a Wonderful Guy; there is Some Enchanted Evening, a fit consort for Oklahoma!'s beautiful morning. All in all, however, Rodgers' fine talent seemed far more individual in the days when his musical shows had crunchy centers rather than gooey ones...
...Tomorrow Will Be Better) to an interviewer for Vogue, "but I've never been able to get on Broadway. The novel is like a good, steady provider ... the kind of fellow you can marry, who is ready to settle down . . . while the theater-that's the handsome guy who's a lot of fun, but you'd be a fool to marry...
...idea was catching on elsewhere. Last week in the ladies' lounge of the Guaranty Trust Co. of New York, 70 women started a ten-week lecture course in investment sponsored by New York University. All had signed up (at $35 each) to hear Finance Professor Guy Downs Plunkett lecture on such topics as "Can I Profit from the Financial Pages of the Newspapers?" The professor thought they could...