Word: hasn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wide, overly powerful"-leaves him cold. Around 1900, manufacturers were afraid to make automobiles look unlike buggies; in 1950, says Musselman, "most salesmen are afraid they'll have a car that won't look like an automobile." The result: radiator cap ornaments, "despite the fact that there hasn't been an exposed radiator cap in at least 15 years," engines in front instead of in back "where [they] belong," six or eight cylinders when "four are enough for [180 m.p.h.] Indianapolis racing cars."* To the nostalgic Musselman, even modern advertising slogans sound "moronic" alongside some...
What did Gary think of his new success? "He hasn't heard about it yet," said Bing by telephone from his Elko County (Nev.) ranch. "He's just about the best haying hand I've got, and I'm not going to take a chance on my new hay crop by telling him until...
...Mother's got to work," mused Dorothy Parker, speaking of herself. "Mother hasn't written anything since the New England Primer." Author Parker, 56, rhymester-wit of the '20s (Enough Rope), more recently a scenarist (The Fan), was back in Manhattan after a long stint in Hollywood ("Two years out there and you'd go anywhere") and a three-month vacation in the tiny Mexican village of Acapantzingo, where she found the Indians magnificent and the countryside "beautiful, terrifying. . . I felt that I could live and die there, but I realized that I was doing neither...
Ringo meets these youths in every bar. They sneer at him, strut, and mutter that "he only has two hands, hasn't he." Then they very quickly draw and die. "Gunfighter" tells of Ringo's attempts to escape from these youths and from his own ability, and of the youth with an incipient moustache who is responsible for his final failure to escape...
...zealous Moviemaker Zanuck, the best part of living is his work: "It's silly to say money hasn't meant anything -but it has never been the primary consideration. Actually, nothing has ever given me the genuine satisfaction of taking pictures, seeing them through and then getting wonderful reviews. I love what I'm doing...