Word: magically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democratic candidate's first brush with the magic touch was provided by chunky John R. McFaden, a pressagent hired by the California Democratic Central Committee. Moved by the dramatic possibilities in Stevenson's scheduled visit to his birthplace on Los Angeles' Monmouth Avenue, McFaden wrote out a script for the occasion. The pressagent was particularly inspired by a vision of Stevenson marching up the walk to his childhood home. "This," read the script, "should be done with reasonable reverence in such a manner as to give cameramen a dramatic shot of a historical figure returning...
...corruption!" he cried. But the Wafd, Egypt's largest and most graft-ridden party, which Naguib turned out together with Farouk, only laughed in his face and is scheming day and night to recapture power. Its big wheels, Mustafa Nahas (ex-Premier) and Serag el Din, used the magic word "purge" to get rid of their rivals, then started plotting to get rid of Naguib. Their plan is to smear Naguib as unpatriotic for failing to throw the British out of Suez and the Sudan. Naguib's counterplan: a stiff electoral reform law, excluding men of "known dishonesty...
...failed) to keep the royal rump from becoming imperial. Farouk's study was a pornographer's paradise, hung with garish paintings and crammed with statuettes of nudes in attitudes conventional as well as unconventional-at least by U S standards. In his desk was a box of "magic tricks," including two pocket radiation counters inscribed: "Measure Nuclear Energy Yourself...
...still difficult to reconcile his solid musical achievement and the indefinable magic of his conducting with the wild iconoclasm of his public utterances, the explanation may lie in the fact that he is a man little compelled either by circumstance or temperament to dwell on the tragic issues of life. It is perhaps therefore only natural that his ebullient energies should seek clamant relief in attacking what he calls "this age of high comedy," in spectacularly pricking that "whole boil and bubble of insanity" which he says he sees around him and which so exasperates him that he is often...
...clear-eyed adolescent adventurers (Jack Armstrong). As writer-producer-director of Let's Pretend (Sat. 11:05 a.m., CBS), she has stuck to her conviction that young radio listeners still like giants, witches and fairy godmothers best. Says Nila: "I'll back seven-league boots and magic wands any time against six-shooters and space ships...