Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Clay (his wife reported) "was happy as a kid" when he got reports from Washington last week that more C-54s were on their way to Berlin from Alaska and the Caribbean...
...Frank Morgan and Agnes Moorehead are just right as the old folks. But the key role is all wrong for Mickey Rooney. Now 27, twice divorced and the father of two, Rooney is still a brilliant if limited performer. But he is no longer Andy Hardy. Playing a bookish kid who recoils from sex in the raw, he gives the impression that he not only knows the meaning of the dirty words on the washroom wall but probably put a few of them there himself...
...Berlin, whose Irish immigrant grandfather made his pile in the Comstock Lode, and whose father was Postal Telegraph Tycoon Clarence Mackay, plainly knows her lace-curtain set. But she handles her characters with kid gloves, eagerly plays up the best side of the worst of them. Most readers will get the feeling that she knows more about their problems than she has chosen to write...
Since December, when he punched Big Joe to the floor twice (and lost the fight on a controversial decision), Jersey Joe has acted like a kid cheated out of his marbles and determined to get them back. He began training far ahead of schedule-while Big Joe, eating his way to a blubbery 225 Ibs., was seeing London and Paris. He hired the roughest & toughest sparring mates he could find. He pulled no punches in sparring sessions at his New Jersey camp...
Last week, the Phillies beat out 12 other big-league clubs in a scramble to sign up another whiz kid. In Thomaston, Ga., where 19-year-old strike-out artist Hugh Radcliffe (TIME, May 10) was pitching his last high-school game, a Philadelphia scout shelled out $40,000 to persuade Radcliffe to become a Philly...