Word: manly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Like a Rabbit." Frank Costello took the lesson to heart. Every man has his own secret portrait of himself, and Costello fancies himself a man who keeps his word, sticks by his friends ("I know a lot of people who are not exactly legitimate. But that don't mean I'm in bed with 'em, does it?") and does countless good deeds. After all, wasn't he supporting a boys' town in Italy, didn't he quietly give away thousands to charity every year, including some run by papers which damned him, and didn...
Just how ailing, uncertain President Chanis expected to bring the trick off was something of a mystery. Remón, the strong man and orderkeeper for every Panama administration since 1946, was in effect chief of staff of the nation's only armed force, the highly trained 2,000-man police corps. He and a staff of fanatically loyal aides had absolute control of the modern police headquarters, a combination fortress, arsenal, barracks, radio communications center and model jail (known locally as the Hotel Remón). By contrast, the only force directly at the President's disposal...
Prince Akihito, heir to the Japanese throne, who will be 16 in December, had to get along with a secondhand sack suit as his first grownup outfit. Emperor Hirohito agreed that his son should have a man's suit, but it seemed uneconomical to buy a new one. So the Emperor ordered his old dark brown, big-checked tweed taken out of mothballs and altered to fit the young prince...
Three Hollywood couples who had announced their separations suddenly decided to try it again: Victor ("Beautiful Hunk of Man") Mature and wife Dorothy; Carmen Miranda and Producer-husband Dave Sebastian; World War II Hero Audie Murphy and Starlet-wife Wanda Hendrix...
...Never a man to hold a grudge, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas arrived in Tucson, Ariz, for a rest, displaying a hand-painted necktie picturing his favorite mount, Kendall. Kendall is the horse that fell on the justice last month, leaving him with 17 broken ribs and a punctured right lung...