Word: joshed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Escape. The Senator?as Marion always refers to him?bleeds only on those rare, agonizing occasions when he is caught without book, paper or audience. Even while accompanying Son Josh to a baseball game, Javits surreptitiously scans the briefcase in his lap. His hard-cover reading currently includes Winston Churchill's The Second World War and Andre Maurois' Disraeli ?books that, for him, come close to escapism...
...concentrating on the dark side of Twain, Kaplan's book illuminates the man whose every smile in print was calculated to bite. Without that dark side, Twain might have taken the same level in literature that is occupied by so many of his contemporaries: Petroleum V. Nasby, Josh Billings, George Washington Cable and Bret Harte. But blandness was not in him. He was a reformer-all edges, out of patience with his times, and desperately anxious to transmit the message to all who would listen. Kaplan's book helps explain why the world is listening still...
...call it a night about the same time. But the party swung for another hour or so behind closed windows, and the other honored guest, Lynda Bird Johnson, stayed until it broke up. So did many of the other guests, who included Heart Surgeon Michael De-Bakey, Producer Josh Logan, Financier Laurance Rockefeller, and Ambassador and Mrs. Angier Biddle Duke, who will play host to Lynda when she visits Spain this summer. A Certain Kind. As it happened, that was Lynda Bird's second brush with the law during a three-day trip to New York with her mother...
...career, and he stood to his bets with tremendous nerve and style. He made three trips to Europe before Marcel Pagnol agreed to sell the rights to his famous cinema trilogy-Marius, Fanny, Cesar. And then Merrick spent three months nailing down the subsidiary rights and three months persuading Josh Logan to go see Pagnol's pictures and three months marking time until he was ready to direct the show and six months working with the librettist and the songwriter and three months signing up Ezio Pinza and Walter Slezak and two months building the supporting cast and two months...
...Franquemont and Paul Padiak did their best to rescue the Crimson, but it wasn't enough Franquemont planed Cornell's Josh Knight at 8:19 of their 152 pound contest, and Padiak, a sophomere, whitewashed Tom Southworth 5-0 at 150. Harvard sported ahead by two points but not for long...