Word: manners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Notre Dame Law School and the wartime U.S. Navy, Fairbanks-born Mike Stepovich won a seat in Alaska's House of Representatives at 32, moved on to the territorial Senate two years later. Among his political assets: an attractive, politics-minded wife, seven children, an easy, breezy manner. "Mike has never met a stranger in his life," says an admirer, marveling at Stepovich's talent for winning friends. Even Alaska Democrats like Republican Stepovich. "He's a good guy," says Democratic Delegate E. L. Bartlett. "I like Mike...
...Strung Up. The people like Ernie so fine that they have made him the only newcomer to Nielsen's sacrosanct Top Ten this year. His canonization among the highly mortal immortals of TV has been a triumph-if that is the word-of manner. Ford has the warmth and expansiveness of a Baptist revivalist, some of the relentless cracker-barrel wit of an Alben Barkley or Will Rogers. No hayseed, he has parlayed his deep-dish Southern accent and soft, self-deprecatory ways into hard money. Says his manager: "He appeals to old people with his hymns and spiritual...
...evening. The streets of Moscow are bright with lights. In the crowds you notice suddenly the face of a woman. She has an artful smile and a nonchalant manner. The woman walks slowly along the sidewalk and looks men in the eye. Later at the police station we meet Nadezhda M. She is in no way ashamed. Finally she is free, for one cannot put her in jail. There is no specific...
With both guests Interviewer Wallace wore himself out beating at a straw man. In questioning oldtime Cinemactress Gloria Swanson, his baiting, inquisitorial manner was not only impertinent, but-worse -not pertinent. It is too late in the century to treat either Actress Swanson's merits as a performer or the Hollywood morals of her heyday as if they were burning issues. For all practical purposes, the Ku Klux Klan is just as dated, but Wallace produced its Imperial Wizard Eldon L. Edwards in a flurry of bedsheets and a flourish of portentous announcements. Edwards, a tongue-tied Atlanta paint...
Miss Bergman proves particularly inept as our fair heroine. The romantic side of the story completely fails to be convincing. Scarcely looking like a simple peasant girl in either attire or manner, most of her role consists of staring into the hero's eyes after love-at-first-sight and screaming after him, "Roberto, Roberto" as he departs courageously into the darkness...