Word: headful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Happy." When the audience burst into applause, Koussy seemed for a long moment unaware of the clapping; he was nodding his grey head and smiling to his musicians in appreciation. Then he turned and gravely faced the audience. Ten minutes and five curtain calls later, he quieted them for some words. Said he, so softly that some in the back could hardly hear: "I knew it would be hard to separate myself from you, my public, and my dear orchestra. But let's be happy that we have had 25 years together. Let's be happy that...
...hallway. The only other opening was a hole six by eight inches in the chimney that formed one wall; it was covered with a clean white cloth. The windowless room had electric lights, three radios, no chair. At about three feet below the ceiling a shelf cut down the head room so that Makushak, who is 6 ft. 1 in., could barely stand erect. The floor was cluttered with odds & ends of junk, cans of food, bottles of soda water, newspapers and books-Alexis Carrel's Man the Unknown, a Bible, dictionaries, a French grammar, textbooks on shorthand, mechanics...
...Babies can catch emotional upsets as well as colds in the head. A smart parent with sniffles puts on a mask before picking up the baby. Exposures to adult emotions may harm him even more than "a few extra germs." Dr. Dunbar's advice: stop a few seconds outside the nursery door, and calm down...
...annual dinner of the National Cartoonists' Society last week, everybody recognized President Milt (Steve Canyon) Caniff and Chief Speaker Al (Li'l Abner) Capp at the head table. But most of the 200 guests did not know the big, sandy-haired fellow in the place of honor. Murat Bernard ("Chic") Young, on his first visit to Manhattan in ten years, looked more like a small-town businessman than the $300,000-a-year creator of the world's most widely syndicated comic strip (Blondie), and the cartoonists' choice as best cartoonist of the year...
Whenever she heard that a big corporation (e.g., Southwestern Bell Telephone or Monsanto Chemical) was due for a paint job, she went to the head man, but she made friends with the maintenance men, too. On a tip, she hustled to the McDonnell Aircraft plant and told President James McDonnell: "Jim, if you're going to paint, I think we can do the job better than anyone else." She did, concocting special shades christened "McDonnell maroon" and "banshee blue" (after the company's fighter plane...