Word: hells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cursing the rain, his day-old beard, his roommate, and John Donne, Vag shuffled out of Lamont. "It's a hell of a way to run a railroad," he noted in passing the construction at the center for Oriental Studies...
...Richard A. Heller of Flushing, N.Y. has discovered what is wrong with American diplomats [Jan. 5]: Secretary of State Dulles has been dunking a cracker in milk in public. Who doesn't? Dulles is known and admired throughout the free world. But who the hell is Heller...
...hearts of blue-jeaned undergraduates as the nation's youngest (30) college president. Handsome Harold Taylor skied, played tennis, taught classes at Manhattan's New School in his first years at Sarah Lawrence, throughout his term tossed off opinions ("It's important that someone raise some hell with philosophy") as John D. Rockefeller Sr. passed out dimes. He ran his college well, but had to give up teaching as administrative duties piled up. Recently Taylor's best-reported diversion has been a low-comedy wrangle with the Westchester County American Legion, to whom Sarah Lawrence...
...Mahin. Ten months ago the team found a loose option on Harold Sinclair's Civil War novel, The Horse Soldiers, snapped it up for a token $1 (eventually they paid $30,000 for the book). Looking around for a director, Entrepreneur Rackin went to the best. "For the hell of it, I called John Ford." Before long, Director Ford, a Civil War buff, agreed to do the picture for a $200,000 flat fee plus 10% of the gross after the movie has earned back its production costs...
...calls in, two of those most fascinated by the President were also among the most acute. Said Hugh Johnson: "[He succeeded] not as a master of planning or knowledge, but as a master of dexterity." And Artist Peggy Bacon, in an ironic comment on his look, said: "Clever as hell but so innocent . . . a grand old actor...