Word: isn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Irving Ives promptly agreed. For Watkins the decision was tougher. As a practicing Mormon, he is opposed to gambling on principle, reluctantly accepts the Senate custom ("It isn't really gambling") for lack of a practical alternative. Moreover, out of eight previous turns at Senate coin tossing, he has lost eight times. At length, as Bricker flipped the coin experimentally, Watkins gave in. "Heads," he called as the quarter whirled in the air. It came up tails. Sighed Arthur Watkins: "My record of losing at this is still intact...
...writer not to slip into a grey flannel suit and measure out his life in installment plans. "Do you want a piece of tin from Detroit and a $30,000 pile of bricks in the suburbs?" he demanded. "If you do, you should get a load on every night. Isn't that a hell of a goal?" Television and the movies have their uses. Faulkner conceded, since they are "a simple way to get a paycheck and have nothing to do with writing." For a young writer, Faulkner kept saying, the only thing that matters is a craving...
...direct rebuke to the press, Lawrence complained: "Criticism of this sort has attained a nationwide momentum, along with a whispering campaign that the President really isn't in good health, or that he isn't up to the job or is relaxing and doesn't care to fulfill his responsibilities. The persistently adverse propaganda about the President is hard to understand in view of the presence of thousands of alert reporters in Washington who can dispel such misinformation...
...HUERA is dead!" charges Edward T. Sullivan, chairman of the 3,000 member Local. "It isn't representing anybody...
Among those least likely to appear at all is Comedian Caesar. ABC wants to talk to him but is not optimistic about being able to put him to work. Says a CBS executive: "Personally, I think he's a very big talent. But audience for satire just isn't big enough to pay off. He's the living proof of George S. Kaufman's famous line that 'satire is what closes on Saturday night...