Word: kerrs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mitchum, acting is strictly journeyman stuff. "I just fall in and fall out," he claims. Not everyone is conned by his nonchalant, sleepy-eyed depreciations. "He's so good," says Deborah Kerr, "that acting is like shelling peas. That's partly because his role is so often the same. He used to describe it as being beaten to death by gorillas. He seems slapdash, but he plumbs the depths of each character...
...script use birth control pills for comic fuel the way French farce uses bedrooms. Gerald Hardcastle (David Niven), an elegant British banker with a cool million and a cooler mistress (Irina Demick), decides that he wants out of his dreary twelve-year marriage. Knowing that his wife Prudence (Deborah Kerr) has hardly been faithful herself, he substitutes aspirin for her birth control pills in hopes that she'll become pregnant by her lover so he can sue for divorce. Meanwhile, the Hardcastle maid decides to yield to her boy friend's advances and swipes Madam's pills...
...know how your father and I love cruises! Remember the gourmet tour of the Orient aboard the S.S. President Cleveland with Alvin Kerr of Gourmet magazine? And that flower-arranging cruise aboard the S.S. Mariposa with Bea Frambach, the president of the American Institute of Floral Designers? And the Photography Cruise? And the Golf Cruise? And as you know, Dad and I love nothing better than those marvelous bridge cruises run by Charles Goren...
...century-Vice Presidents who succeeded upon the deaths of their predecessors-Theodore Roosevelt and Calvin Coolidge were at the crests of their popularity when they declined second full terms. Johnson and Truman were both in shoal waters. In Truman's case, three Democratic Senators - Oklahoma's Robert Kerr, Tennessee's Estes Kefauver and Georgia's Richard Russell-were avowed candidates against him, and earlier that March Kefauver had embarrassingly defeated the President in the New Hampshire primary; just four months before, Truman's popularity polls had skidded to an alltime...
...most Oklahomans take pride in his rise to national prominence in the tradition, if not the manner, of Carl Albert and Bob Kerr. At any rate, Fred Harris is not likely to change his stripes. Says he: "If you get away from what you think is right, you are in terrible trouble. Then you don't know what you stand for any more, and you won't know how to defend yourself...