Word: jawings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slow tune with almost cello-like evenness, or take on a raucous bite in a fast rhythm. In a melancholy mood, it has a cinnamon flavor that tends to remind fans of happier days gone by-or soon to come. Moreover, thanks to the malocclusion of the Clooney jaw, her voice carries just a hint of a lisp. A word like "kiss" comes out a bit like "kish," and "caress" like "caresh." Like Bing Crosby, who attributed some of the distinctiveness of his early bu-bu-bu-boos to a node on his vocal cords, Clooney gets a sound that...
Meanwhile, the technicians had gone to work on the "unprepossessing" Clooney features. From a cameraman's standpoint she had several flaws. Her nose was too wide, her legs too skinny. Her face was too long and jaw a bit prognathous. With careful placing of the lights, most of the faults disappeared. Her long face was doubly 'corrected," by arrangement of the lights and by designing a wardrobe which featured high, square-cut necklines and bow ties on her simpler dresses...
...your Feb. 2 issue, I find: "Friends said [Wayne] Morse's swoon probably resulted from treatment to his jaw, broken last year when a horse kicked him." I know a group who would like to know the name of the horse to award same an Oscar "for the supreme exhibition of horse sense...
...confirmed Wilson as Defense Secretary. The six included Wayne Morse, who made a two-hour speech opposing confirmation, left the Senate floor, fainted as he walked into the reading room, recovered in time to vote. (Friends said Morse's swoon probably resulted from treatment to his jaw, broken last year when a horse kicked...
Linkletter is probably the most notable living native of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. His parents moved to California when he was six, and Art worked his way through San Diego State College, won his varsity letter at basketball and swimming. A big (6 ft. i in., 210 Ibs.) and serious-minded athlete, he has only this year given up competing in National A.A.U. handball tournaments. He got into radio on a local San Diego station and has broadcast from planes, dirigibles, battleships and submarines. Once he had himself hoisted up & down the face of a skyscraper in a bosun...