Word: m
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exist for a [federal] commission." Indignant Charles Wolverton wanted to haul the offending Senators before the House subcommittee, and he introduced a bill to make it a crime for anybody, including members of Congress, to make an improper request of a federal regulatory agency member. Said he: "I'm sure it shocks anyone else who has an idea of morality...
...style. They've been wearing sack dresses for years." On watching voters in the U.S.S.R.'s one-party election: "Let's hurry back to the hotel and get the first returns." On drinking vodka: "Now I know why they got their Sputniks up first. I'm surprised the whole country didn't go straight up years ago." On the censorship: "The Soviet censor read all my jokes. I haven't seen him since. I understand he is doing my act in Leningrad...
...utterly amazed" at last week's performance. Glowed proud mother Helen Hayes (who squeezed in most of the show on a dressing-room TV set between her cues in Broadway's T ime Remembered): "It was extraordinary. I feel self-conscious talking about him, but I'm not ever biased about acting. There was no possible element of accident in this performance. It was an awful challenge, and he showed he is a real actor...
...gets criticism and turns on the critic. You know what this all means, don't you? It means 'Jack O'Brian doesn't like my show.' " Would Critic O'Brian reply to Critic Allen in his daily column? Said he staunchly: "I'm not even going to mention...
...tons, is dramatically suspended in midair and open to the sky above the central pool. To give the structure the maximum look of lightness, a trellis of light steel straps was used to hold the 42-ft.-high plastic walls rigid against the wind. Says Stone: "I'm not given to flexing my structural muscles publicly. But you can't say this building doesn't shout with steel. Why, you can almost hear those cables, and you can see every damned member...