Word: helling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said one member of the U.S. delegation: "You know, you sweat like hell, cable like hell, lobby like crazy in the corridors-and then it's finally all over and it doesn't mean a thing. This resolution was so meek it wouldn't have scared Louisa May Alcott. By abstaining we pleased the Arab bloc, and at the same time we didn't get De Gaulle sore. We just hope to God he starts negotiating with Algeria...
...into writing her latest exposé of small-town wickedness. In agreement with most critics, Grace growled: "This isn't a novel; it's a Hollywood treatment." Added she: "It was never intended to be anything else. It was a foul, rotten trick. They made a hell of a lot on Peyton Place, and they wanted to ride the gravy train...
...entered high school, Anne was a slick, style-conscious teen-ager -far more "sophisticated" than she is today-with a great interest in the boys. But always Mamma was there to keep her in check. "Once," says Anne, "my mother caught my older sister having sneak dates and beat hell out of her. I didn't want a licking, so I didn't do too much of that." And another time, when Annie smoked a cigarette onstage in an amateur production of Night Must Fall, her Aunt Kate yelled terrifyingly from the back of the hall...
...eventually got her a part in a TV production of Turgenev's Torrents of Spring. "Look," says Annie as she tries to find some modest explanation for the fact that she worked even during her lunch hours. "I had no money for malteds and no dates. What the hell was there for me to do but stay onstage when the other kids were...
...products on his family. When he brought home a packa.ge of Minute Spanish rice, the family circle liked it so well that he had to go back for more. When he discovered that General Foods was market-testing the rice, "I thought to myself, now what the hell for? How scientific can you get?" Market testing stopped the next morning, and the product has gone on to become an excellent seller. "At General Foods," says Mortimer, "we try to cultivate a healthy spirit of dissatisfaction with everything...