Word: helene
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...lapsed from its usual pattern of filmed shows to try a live hour-long Spectacular, Springtime, U.S.A. It is a Broadway truism that Helen Hayes is so gifted that she could even make the reading of the Manhattan phone book an exciting experience. ABC confounded Broadway and Helen by handing her a script as heavy as the phone book and twice as dull...
...Picking. Like most of the attractive and susceptible women who crossed the major's path. Junoesque Helen Hackman found his glamour and gallantry well-nigh irresistible. Signed on as his private secretary and bivouacked at his hotel, Helen spent many a happy hour in the major's company, dropping in at supper clubs by night, driving through the countryside by day. If Helen had a moment of doubt when the wardens at Dart moor Prison waved a cheery greeting to her companion one day as they drove by. it was promptly dispelled by the major's quickly...
Just as reassuring to Helen was the major's eventual proposal of marriage and his subsequent visit to London Jeweler Theodore Williams. For, like everything Major Woodfall did. the purchase of a suitable wedding gift for his bride was consummated in style. It began with a ?70 ($196) dinner at the Ritz for Jeweler Williams, ended with the shrewd selection of some ?6,800 worth of gems at Williams' place of business. Paying for the lot by check. Major Woodfall pocketed a particularly appealing brooch (worth ?585) with the words that Miss Hackman wished to wear it over...
...thought of having as President "that wonderful, attractive, honest and good Dick Nixon"--as Helen Hayes put it--is, indeed, frightening. From the start of his political career to his latest free-swinging superlatives about Chief Justice Warren, Nixon has proven that he is out for just one thing: Richard Nixon. Obviously, he now supports the Eisenhower legislative program, but it is virtually impossible to point to a single substantive policy in the past three year's that has been his own. The combined lack of creative leadership and of consistent political principles make Nixon's opportunism dangerous to Eisenhower...
Eisenhower can probably take substantial credit for effectively silencing McCarthy, and yet Nixon's first campaign was a miniature of McCarthy's tactics. And in 1950, in his successful race for the Senate against Helen Gahagan Douglas, Nixon hid his own record by showing that his opponent had voted 353 times with Representative Vito Marcantonia, and was therefore "soft on Communism." Nixon failed to point out that on most of these votes Marcantonia was merely going along with the Democratic majority, and that on a key issue like Nixon's vote against economic aid to Korea five months before...