Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Berman has sentimental Charles Boyer eyes, is also known for his Quiz-Kid memory, his eloquence and his highly unsentimental political skill. The current renaissance of Poland's traditionally virulent anti-Semitism increases his unpopularity (Berman is a Jew), but his power is enormous. No document moves in. or out of the Premier's office without his O.K., and foreign diplomats, when stymied elsewhere, go to him for decisive action. A foreign visitor once called him: "A Harry Hopkins without a Roosevelt." The comparison applies to Berman's behind-the-scenes role, not to his objectives...
...felt certain that the man who made Terry and the Pirates, the best drawn U.S. comic strip, could do it again. Last week Caniff finally told them a little about his new comic (to start Jan. 13): it would be called Steve Canyon and "it isn't a kid's strip...
...those who can weather 20th Century Fox's high-school belly-laughs, "Margie" has a certain nostalgia that is alien to the Swing generation but sacred to its patents. All the touches, from "oh you kid," through the Charleston and Irving Berlin's "Always," down to the high-school debate over whether the Marines should be withdrawn from Nicaragua-recreate the hoteha and ballyhoo of the years just preceding the depression. Especially typical is the portrayal of the high-school football hero, whose raccoon coat, honor-badge of the period, appears as standard equipment whenever the young buck comes...
...glib, dreamy-eyed kid in Los Angeles' teeming Central Avenue neighborhood, Charlie Edwards felt himself a cut above the other Negro youngsters. He had bold ideas of becoming a great writer or famous legal light. But school bored him. When unappreciative teachers filled his report card with F's, Charlie brightly forged them all into...
Able, bald Everett Needham Case four years ago became a college president at 41; last week his kid brother, James Herbert Case Jr., made the grade the day before he turned 40. Jim Case took over at small, 159-year-old Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, Pa., 300 miles southwest of Brother Ev's Colgate. Chief speaker at the inaugural: Brother...