Word: manners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...public, Hagerty's voice sounds loudest when he announces White House plans and decisions-and in a republic where the manner of presenting policy can be almost as important as its substance, Hagerty's influence is great. "Jim has been largely responsible for the complexion of the Administration," says Sherman Adams, a man not given to gushing. "His accomplishments have been heroic...
...Temple's Storybook last week sent viewers on a wildly nostalgic binge and helped make good the ancient Zanuck prophecy. Shirley Temple, now a full-bodiced 29, had bridged a whole generation without losing so much as a dimple. The goldilocks had turned to deep brown, and the manner was demure as dimity; but the eyes were still dewy, the acting full of artful childishness, and when she sang the show's theme song, Dreams Are Made for Children, the voice had the same lilting lisp that warmed the hearts of millions with Polly Wolly Doodle...
...sensitive-type child who reads books and listens to classical music. Hope Lange is adequate as her friend the murderess, and Terry Moore is well-cast in a low-cut dress. Lana Turner reverses her field to play a woman afraid of love, and does so in a professional manner...
Boston's diocesan Catholic paper The Pilot quickly came back at Blanshard: "The three questions are expressed in a manner that misrepresents authentic Catholic teaching on the subject in question. Catholics have no 'boycott' of public schools: the American Catholic hierarchy have never made an 'attack...
...reason for both these instruments, says Dr. Francis Reichelderfer, head of the U.S. Weather Bureau, is that science cannot now keep track of the earth's "heat balance." The incoming energy from the sun fluctuates in an unknown manner, and the amount of cloud-cover on the earth affects the percentage of solar energy that is bounced back into space. A satellite equipped with proper instruments could measure incoming and outgoing energy, thereby help weathermen to predict as much as a year ahead whether a season is apt to be warmer or colder than usual...