Word: high-strung
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...Everybody thinks of radio as NBC," complained talkative, high-strung Bernice Judis. "That's silly. CBS doesn't like it-and neither do we." She was speaking for her own station, Manhattan's successful 10,000-watt WNEW, and for the 734 other radio independents (nearly half of all U.S. stations) who felt that they had been treated as stepchildren by the network-dominated National Association of Broadcasters...
...pulls all of these acts together is high-strung Max Liebman, 43, producer, director and owner of the precious package. For 16 years, Liebman has been in & out of the Poconos, Broadway and Hollywood (he helped tailor a number of the routines that made Danny Kaye famous). He thinks that turning out a highly professional show every week for TV is a "greater strain" than doing it for the stage. He was showing no particular strain last week over the news that he had a contented sponsor...
Some provocative facts are known. She has been engaged in a long, bitter, on-&-off feud with her cinemactress sister, Joan Fontaine (no one has figured out any specific reason for the ill-feeling, beyond the fact that both are high-strung young women and in a sense professional rivals). She has, during a decade as "Hollywood's Bachelor Girl," been "linked" romantically in the gossip columns with many of the community's most prominent men, from Jimmy Stewart to Howard Hughes. She is suspected of being an "intellectual." She has a hardheaded, serious-minded approach...
...Angeles, Carmen Miranda, who in private life is Mrs. David Sebastian, was feeling best of all. The high-strung Brazilian with the high-riding hats announced that she was going to have a baby, her first, some time next...
...When high-strung Lou Boudreau, the Indians' manager and shortstop, juggled his line-up last week and lost a game, there were public mutterings that maybe Club President Bill Veeck should have fired him last year, after all. One afternoon Boudreau sat listening to a broadcast of a Boston Red Sox game. He raked his hair with his fingers and exclaimed, "Jeez! Jeez!" every time the Sox scored. The Sox, under square-jawed Manager Joe McCarthy, seemed a shade less panicky. They had power to burn-what they prayed for was pitchers able to last nine innings. This week...