Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with my father and mother trying to help me." His arm muscles were so weak that he could not stand up to other youngsters. One day his father encouraged him: "You have the mind but not the body . . . You must make your body. It is hard drudgery, but I know you will do it." Theodore organized a gymnasium with horizontal bars and a punching bag on the second floor of the town house and set about to do just that...
...suffered all the torments of power hunger and high ideals that had no place of power to go. One night at an Alpha Delta Phi committee meeting, T.R. told his fraternity brothers: "I am going to try to help the cause of better government . . . But I don't know exactly...
Eleven years ago in the predawn of TV, Milton Berle mused: "I'm not the manufactured Broadway comedian any more. I'm going back, back to my real talent. I began as a dramatic actor, you know." Instead, for eight razzle-dazzle years in which they both became U.S. living-room fixtures, TV made him a prisoner of comedy. Last week, after two years of well-paid retirement as a television personality,* Berle, 49, finally went back to his "real talent...
...ebullient old days, Berle managed to make clear who was the star of the show. He squawked that the air conditioning in NBC's big Brooklyn studio was giving him laryngitis, edgily dressed down a news photographer: "You were taking pictures all during that scene, baby. You know this is a dress rehearsal." Once he stopped rehearsals because he kept hearing noises on the set. "I can't go on," he complained. "There's too much talking." Said a technician: "That guy-he'll say he can't hear lines right next...
...Shippers know that the stormy seas will eventually calm. The inevitable growth of world trade will demand all their ships-and more. But to stay afloat until then, Greek tramp-ship owners in New York and London last week were anxiously searching for a plan to cut costs and increase revenues. One idea is to set up a series of unbreakable dry-cargo rates to ensure an operating profit on each voyage. Failing in that, the Greeks may be forced to reduce their surplus tramp tonnage by laying up still another 20% of the fleet, assessing each owner with...