Word: knacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since 1950, when Kind Hearts cleaned up at the art houses, British Cinemactor Guinness has steadily built his mass appeal in the U.S.-largely with his marvelously comical knack of hooking the odd fish. But his audience is not limited to moviegoers. As the star of hundreds of filler shows, which exhibit his comedies habitually, he is a stalwart TV attraction too. By the middle '50s, Guinness was pulling his TV audience into U.S. movie theaters, and movie publicists were bragging that, on the list of British exports, Guinness Stout was hardly as well known as Guinness, Alec; that...
...dictators in Argentina. Colombia and Venezuela, and stood quietly but firmly against them. Last week the church in Cuba shifted adroitly into opposition to Strongman Fulgencio Batista by calling for a "national-unity government" to replace his. By contrast, the U.S. State Department has sometimes had an unhappy knack of appearing to back the dictators. Former Inter-American Affairs Chief Henry Holland publicly hailed Peron as a "great Argentine." Secretary of State Dulles took time during one of his two visits to Latin America to pay a courtesy call on Colombia's Strongman Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. since kicked...
...John McClellan's labor-management rackets-investigation subcommittee. The committee said that Maloney's union gave him a 47-ft., $35,000 yacht, three race-track memberships, a country-club membership and a Washington apartment. Investigators also declared that Maloney (salary: $50,000 a year) had a knack for collecting double and treble on his expense accounts. Once he traveled to Europe on behalf of the U.S. Labor Department, collected $1,001 from the Government, $13,387 from the union for such items as pictures for his bon -voyage party ($1,054); a camera, which was listed...
...place a first novel that shows how extraordinary the ordinary can be. Home from the Hill tells a story that will be largely familiar to every small-towner. What takes it well beyond village gossip and to a fairly high fictional level is Author Humphrey's knack for turning the feelings and motives of his characters this way and that, until each has taken an unshakable hold on the reader's interest...
...Sullenberger, 1939 graduate of the University of Arkansas' School of Medicine, who began to specialize in surgery as soon as he finished his Army stint. He won certification by the American Board of Surgery, and recognition as a skilled and sometimes daring operator. But Dr. Sullenberger had a knack for not getting along with people. In 1950 he was asked to leave the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor after an assault-and-battery charge against him (the verdict: not guilty). That same year he was asked to leave St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Pontiac "for conduct unbecoming...