Word: idolator
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...amazing, however, that a national idol can be created on a week's baseball performance, or that a man such as Don Newcombe can be vilified on the strength of seven games...
...members. Catapulted into the key job of general secretary of Britain's biggest union 21 months ago by the sudden successive deaths of two oldtime platform stalwarts, Cousins is now shooting for national union leadership, a role that has not been filled since his old boss and idol, the late Ernest Bevin, built the T.W.U. and went on to become Labor's Foreign Secretary...
Born Cyril Trimnell-Ritchard 58 years ago ("Just say I was born and progressed in the 17th century"), he was educated by convent nuns, packed off to Sydney University to study medicine. After one year he hooked up in musical shows "as a pimply novice" with his boyhood idol, Actress Elliott. In 1935 Madge and Cyril, dubbed by Noel Coward "the singing Lunts," were married "with 3,000 people in the cathedral and 20,000 in the streets." Later in the U.S., Ritchard wasted his directorial skills on a dismal flop called Buy Me Blue Ribbons ("The reviews were simply...
Though no match for the 1951 crime investigations and the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings, the labor hearings provided compelling, real-life drama in which well-scrubbed Bob Kennedy, the committee's chief counsel, emerged as TV's newest matinee idol. Older Brother Jack, member of the committee, made a winning supporting character. "Just Plain Bill" was Committee Boss John McClellan, who scowled formidably behind his plain-as-rain, legalistic rumblings. Before them paraded a motley collection of sullen ex-Communists, pudgy labor pariahs and Vitalis-smooth lawyers. Unlike Mobster Frank ("Hands") Costello, this year's gallery...
Nationalist days was the tough, tight-fisted war lord of Yunnan province, took a crack at the most sacrosanct foreign idol of all. Said General Lung, now a vice chairman of Red China's National Defense Council: "It is totally unfair for the People's Republic of China to pay all the expenses of the Korean War. The U.S. has given up her claims for loans she granted to her allies during the first and second world wars, yet the Soviet Union insists that China must pay interest on Soviet loans." He would like to know, Lung added...