Word: impressions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ella Fitzgerald tenses fearfully when she hears this. The most popular jazz singer in the world for 27 years and only now reaching the peak of her career, she remains a celebrity fan nonpareil. So out on the stage she goes and sings her heart out to impress Drake Brown. It is unimportant that Drake Brown does not exist. In jazz the end justifies the means...
Success did not mellow Runyon. He never stopped trying to impress newsroom recruits with his $40 shoes (size 51B) and his sharpie suits. He avoided the sportswriting clan's easy fraternity, arriving early and alone at the ballpark, leaving alone and late. He was a married bachelor whose first wife died of the habit that he had kicked...
...misses, we'll make him stick it in a snow bank." Laces Front, Head Down. Such newfangled notions do not impress an old pro like Cleveland's Lou ("The Toe) Groza, the dean of place kickers and top point scorer (with 1,404) in football history. At 40, Groza cuts a comical figure as he waddles onto the field -belly hanging over the waist of his practically padless pants. But the players don't snicker. A proud perfectionist who boots 30 or more field goals a day in practice, Groza hit on 15 out of 23 field...
Priestly Poker. His peace offensive met much the same reaction as his food. In Turkey a government spokesman said, "This poker-playing priest just can't be believed." On Cyprus the Turkish community thought it was all a maneuver to impress the U.N. Security Council, currently meeting on the Cyprus question. With only 12,000 lightly armed fighting men opposing 35,000 Greek Cypriots armed with tanks and artillery, the Turkish Cypriots are reluctant to give up their sandbagged entrenchments or scatter to their bombed and burned-out villages...
...Eager to impress, the Japanese plied the bankers with No plays, Koto recitals, Bunraku puppet shows, trips to the countryside, geisha parties and tea with Emperor Hirohito. They even introduced a new cigarette called IMF. Between the crowded plenums and the warm sake sessions, the international moneymen performed some important business-and witnessed a struggle for control of the world's monetary leadership...