Word: hoping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hope the gentleman will not try to make a statesman out of me," rumbled Tennessee's Democratic Congressman Ross Bass on the House floor last week. "Let's talk politics." Rarely has Ross Bass or any other Congressman come closer to expressing the will of the House. Under debate was a wheat-subsidy bill-and the outcome was 100% political, unalloyed by the slightest pretense of statesmanship...
...week's end, as Margaret winged her way back home, a Lisbon editor irately complained that the fair was nothing but ''a party given by the British for the British in a conquered land." The West Germans, who have no monarchy, hope to open a Lisbon fair of their own some time...
Emotional Flames. The congregation was stunned. Some women in the choir burst into tears. Several parishioners rose from their pews to denounce Commissioner King. "You have been listening to the wrong people," said one. "If we kick a Christian man and his family out like this, what hope have we?" asked another. Valdosta's King shook his head. Said he, with notable irrelevance: "The commission feels that the voice of the pulpit should be the voice of the congregation...
...hope he keeps talking till...
...Hope Lange, 24 (married, two children), is a Hollywood rarity, a fine actress who wears sincerity like a cameo. A good girl in Bus Stop, raped, kicked and beaten in Peyton Place, a glossy career girl in The Best of Everything, she can project whatever is asked for with the professional competence of an actress who started on the stage when she was twelve (in Sidney Kingsley's The Patriots). "A lot of people who are stars never have time to work out what they are doing," says she. "Acting is important to me, and I believe...