Word: keen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old girl named Valerie Lauder is a person to be reckoned with in Chicago journalism. Her "Keen Teens" column is one of the Chicago Daily News's better drawing-cards, and her Keen Teen Press Club has interviewed almost every celebrity who has blown into the Windy City during the past year...
...Club interview the President. "Little girl," said he, "go out and buy yourself an ice-cream cone." But Val talked her boss into it, and Truman agreed. Her conference was the only one the President gave in Chicago. Said Val: "It was precedent-breaking. It made history. It was keen...
...good living. By contract, M-G-M had maintained him in luxurious style while they talked about filming his Brideshead Revisited. But the censors wanted to change a script that Waugh liked. So it was no go. He didn't want changes. He really wasn't "keen" now to sell the book to any studio, said...
...news scout searched Bogota for a Colombian representative last year, he was told that there was only one man in the country who knew how to write the terse, factual stories that North Americans like. "Unfortunately for you," a Colombian explained, "he is our President." He spoke of keen, wiry Alberto Lleras Camargo, the "boy wonder" editor who became Minister of Interior (Premier) at 29, and stepped into the presidency ten years later. Last week, Lleras, now 41, got a job with even more scope; he was elected director general of the venerable Pan American Union...
Thus passed the spiritual leader of some 5,000,000 Roman Catholics in Canada and the most influential man in Quebec. A short (5 ft. 6 in.) man with a round body and face, keen dark eyes and spectacles that perched halfway down his nose, the Cardinal was also a power in Canada. Of recent years, his influence has been exerted notably to guide Quebec away from her isolationism and toward greater unity with the rest of the Dominion...