Word: hardboiledness
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The very thing that gives Pal Joey its distinction-its unabashed look at sordid doings-may always disconcert the people for whom musicomedy means moonlight & roses, or at any rate does not mean blackmail and kept men. O'Hara's account of a small-time heel with his...
There was no evidence that Peggy Ellsworth was using dope, and she was freed. But the Tribune and Reporter Browning dumped her, fast. Norma Lee, "disillusioned . . . and also much wiser," wrote a red-faced story for Page One. It was too late to stop the second installment of her Sunday...
Assigned in 1946 to Mac Arthur's Tokyo headquarters, Almond as acting Chief of Staff first ran G-1 (personnel). He disliked the work. "I'm an infantry soldier," he said later. "I did my best as G1, but my first love is G-3 [operations]. That'...
Publisher Hecht has had only one resounding flop. Nine years ago, in an effort to stem the tide of blood & thunder comic books ("I won't publish stuff like that"), he brought out True Comics to tell the stories of great men and great deeds. True Comics made a...
Died. Ismail Sidky Pasha, 75, twice Premier of Egypt; in Paris. Though he lacked the popular touch, rich, hardboiled Sidky Pasha, an able administrator, was in the thick of Egyptian politics for half a century.