Word: know
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chicago Bookdealer Georgia Lingafelt concluded that "people have a halfhearted search going on inside them, even though they don't know it and would be embarrassed to admit...
...like hauling off a'-d punching the wall when you're frustrated. I'm gratified with the way he's getting along up to now. If he lives by society's conventions and laws for ten years I'll know we have accomplished something." Surgeon Meany is more optimistic about a lasting happy ending: "John was an apt case for psychological surgery. His troubles started between the ages of twelve and 15, when he passed the point of childhood anonymity, before which kids don't care much about appearances. He's holding...
...better to write good Gershwin than bad Ravel." And after hearing some piano preludes, songs from Porgy and Bess and An American in Paris, topped off by a rousing Rhapsody in Blue, Cannes connoisseurs found good Gershwin good enough for them. They let Conductor Horenstein & Co. know it with six noisy curtain calls. Concluded old Cannes Critic Edouard Berthier: "When you write that kind of music, you don't have to imitate anybody...
...McCrary has been looking at television with a speculative eye. An A.A.F. lieutenant colonel (he jumped with paratroops into France) and ex-newsman (chief editorial writer of the New York tabloid Mirror), McCrary was confident that he could survive TV's headaches. He was also shrewd enough to know that he had a TV asset in his pretty brunette wife Jinx Falkenburg, onetime model and cinemactress, who shares his over-the-breakfast-table radio show...
...Pitcher Sain is a phlegmatic, self-disciplined ballplayer who needs no prodding or wet-nursing. He doesn't talk much; his wife declares she didn't know he was a baseball player until she was married to him. But there is nothing bashful about him when it comes to asking for more money-this season the Braves will pay him close to $40,000, one of the highest salaries in the National League...