Word: hells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...completely at home in his new campaign methods, and at times he was embarrassed. In Los Angeles' Pershing Square, for example, he approached an old man sitting on a bench and said: "I'm Adlai Stevenson." Growled the bench-sitter: "I know who you are; get the hell out of here." But Stevenson made the new formula work...
...should be taken to task for not giving out with the story prevalent in the Fleet concerning "31-Knot Burke." While commanding a division of destroyers, the admiral somehow got off course and ended up in a minefield. When asked by his immediate superior what in hell he was doing over in that minefield, he calmly replied: "31 knots...
...hall. As Music Lover Truman watched approvingly, Conductor Bernhard Paumgartner struck up the band, then quickly stopped the music while guards kicked out a movie cameraman who had ignored a signal to go away from Truman territory. At a dinner that followed, the former President, never averse to giving hell even to the press when it nettles him, outspokenly applauded the maestro's action: "Many times in my own life I have wished that I could have handled the press photographers as well!" Unfortunately, Truman's interpreter omitted the word "photographers." Next day Austria's press, keener...
...hell ever freezes over, an inquiring reporter will probably be the first to go out to see if the ice is thick enough to walk on. Last week a young Cairo journalist, the first Egyptian lawfully to penetrate what has long been the world's hottest border, was back home safe and telling his story...
...Such hell-bent base running-something of a rarity among pampered pitchers who figure that their only work waits for them on the mound-is typical of Roberts' attitude toward baseball. He loves every minute of the game. He is a better-than-average fielder, can knock down the line drives that whistle back from the batter's box, moves fast and surely to field bunts. Despite his dainty, mincing style at the plate, he is a competent (.250) switch-hitter. "I'm happy as can be out there," he says. "I enjoy all of it-fielding...