Word: idol
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anyone remembers "that when General Eisenhower takes off his uniform, he is going to look just like a man instead of a god." Mrs. Norton omits an important point, i.e., that when the general takes off his shoes and his socks, it may reveal that like another god (idol), his feet are of clay...
Francis X. Bushman was a national idol in the silent picture days. So long as audiences could admire him from a distance, he was a box office-hit. But when the talkies made a movie actor's charm partly vocal, Bushman's popularity vanished...
...minor leaguer, and under the constant needling of Manager Leo Durocher (a player of small talents himself), Stanky blossomed in Brooklyn. He set his bases-on-balls record in 1945. He sparked Brooklyn to its first pennant in six years in 1947.** The Brooklyn fans made Eddie an idol (along with Dixie Walker), tabbed him with such affectionate nicknames as "The Brat," "Gromyko" (because he walked so much), "Stinky," and "Muggsy...
...spring of 1948, Stanky was a fallen idol in Rickey's eyes. Rickey had broken baseball's color line with the importation of hard-hitting Jackie Robinson, and, as it happened, Robinson was a better second baseman than Eddie Stanky. The Boston Braves jumped ($100,-ooo worth) at the chance to get Stanky, hoping that his "intangibles" would perk up a team perennially in the shadow of the glamorous Red Sox. Before leaving Brooklyn, Eddie broke with his good friend Durocher, who had taken Rickey's side against Stanky in a salary dispute. Durocher," Stanky cried, "knifed...
...plays the tragic teen-ager with a gentle glow and an innocent coquetry that makes her far more alluring than most of Hollywood's veteran vamps; 2) a look at brilliant Director Vittorio (Miracle in Milan) De Sica as an actor. De Sica, 49, an Italian matinee idol before he turned to directing, proves handsome and talented on the screen, but he would have done this picture more good behind the cameras than in front of them...