Word: herbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attack, Attorney General Herbert Brownell began collecting Cabinet suggestions for lightening the President's burden. Brownell carefully compiled all the ideas in a little black notebook. "Why don't you give it to the President?" asked Milton. Brownell hesitated; weeks of polishing, he said, would be required. "Herb," Milton persisted quietly, "why don't you give it to him now?" Brownell sat silent for a moment, then handed the notebook to a presidential aide...
...Running with the same awesome power that set a world's mile record of 3:54-5 last month, Aussie Herb Elliott sprinted the last 300 meters in 40.5 sec., was clocked at 3:36 for 1,500 meters in Göteborg, Sweden, to cut the world's record by a whopping 2.1 sec. Next day he ran the mile in 3:58, his ninth under four minutes...
...Charles Van Doren, the man who defeated him. ("I took my wife to the theater one night, and I overheard somebody saying, 'That's the guy who was beat by Charles Van Doren.' It hurt me egotistically.") The very mention of Producer Enright seemed to choke Herb with bile. But for all his vindictiveness, his detail-packed story commanded attention...
Acting School. After applying for a spot on the show in the fall of 1956, Stempel, then a C.C.N.Y. student, took a general information test, and did remarkably well. One night Producer Enright went to Herb's apartment and gave him another verbal exam. "Then," says Herb, "Dan leaned back and said, 'How'd you like to win a lot of money?' I said, 'Well, sure.' 'Look,' he said, 'kid, play ball with...
After that, Herb went on, Enright told him to get a "whitewall" marine-style haircut, and selected a worn-out suit and tie for him to complete the picture of the penniless G.I. He coached him in grimace and gesture, taught him how to "think" violently in the TV isolation booth ("I call it the Dan Enright school of acting"). All his questions, said Herb, were fed to him in advance by Enright...