Word: idolizes
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...walls, Jefferson retreated to the ages, President Soekarno began to bald, and Indonesia (which never had an election or ratified its constitution) began to splinter. Last week, upon Indonesia's bright-eyed women still fighting for monogamy, fell the crudest blow of all. They learned that their idol, President Soekarno, had secretly taken a second wife...
...blue-chip cast, all old pros, managed to brush away much of Royal Family's dust. Fredric March, who played Tony, the skirt-chasing screen idol, in both Hollywood and Broadway versions, roared and pranced through the TV adaptation with his old gusto. Helen Hayes, as the family's irascible matriarch, and Claudette Colbert, as the harassed heroine, played warmly and well, supported by the harrumphs of Charles Coburn as the family manager. As a play, Royal Family was not the best starter for a prestige builder. The madcap antics, the entrances and exits tended to jumble...
During the Queen's coronation, Geoffrey Fisher became the most widely known archbishop in history and something of a U.S. television idol (Fisher himself regards TV as one of the century's great evils, although Mrs. Fisher loves it). Ceremonial has never been his long suit, and he has been known to stop a procession to speak to a friend, but the world was stirred by the perfection of Fisher's voice and timing, his respectful suggestion of fatherly solicitude for a young woman, his clear demonstration that Elizabeth was Queen only by the Grace...
...with the dependability of swallows zooming into Capistrano. Soon due are such talented warblers as Vaughn Monroe, Dinah Shore, Jo Stafford, Martha Wright and Jane Froman. Eddie Fisher sang four songs, worked in a little quick sell for his sponsor (Coca-Cola), and on ballads, unashamedly imitated his idol, Perry Como...
...four-armed idol of Lord Venkateshwara (one of Vishnu's aliases) lives in a mammoth temple atop a 2,500-ft.-high hill at Tirupati in South India. In the temple court stands a big metal receptacle known as a hundi; into it pilgrims drop offerings of jewelry, money and gold...