Word: idolator
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...excuse not to show British pictures. He thought that it was "retaliation, perhaps only subconscious," for British restrictions on Hollywood films. "Until the trouble blows over," Korda announced last week, he will not release in the U.S. four films already scheduled for showing: Bonnie Prince Charlie, Fallen Idol, The Winslow Boy and The Small Back 'Room...
...Madras City, Premier Ramaswami Reddiar gave him a garland of roses that almost smothered him. Half a million enthusiasts turned out to greet him. As their idol passed, standing in an open grey Buick touring car (hired from a local millionaire), Madrasis clapped wildly and yelled: "Jawaharlal Nehru ki jai!"-Victory to Jawaharlal Nehru. In response Nehru closed palms in front of his chest. This traditional Hindu namasthe (greeting) is as much a part of his public manner as was the V sign for Churchill...
When Patton first noticed that he was tense and tight before a race, Pursell reassured him: "If a runner is perfectly composed and at ease, he's no champion." Pursell was Patton's idol. When the coach suggested that Mel not dance ("It takes the tone out of your legs"), Mel didn't. He forsook swimming and lolling on the beach because Pursell advised him to. Pursell, no man to grab credit, told Patton that everything he knew about track he learned from Dean Cromwell...
...Louis had been world heavyweight champion so long (eleven years and three days) that many people had forgotten the last one.* Idol of the Negro race, and so popular with the whites that the old cry for a "white hope" never came up, Joe Louis, the slow-thinking Alabama boy, was a champion the whole U.S. was proud of. No taint of suspicion ever hung over any of his 61 pro fights (although he was managed for years by racket men). The gate receipts grossed a whopping $11,000,000 of which his share...
Thornton Wilder, no matinee idol at 51, prepared-to play both ends from the middle this week: the male lead in a Berkshire Playhouse version of The Skin of Our Teeth, by Thornton Wilder...