Word: nice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bell was in Belgrade on what turned out to be a prolonged tour of European capitals. Three weeks ago he left Bonn for what he expected to be a brief trip to Paris. He cabled me: "Just before this road show started, I bought a nice gray suit. In Bonn, it got rained on as Chancellor Adenauer raised the West Germans' new flag of sovereignty for the first time. In Paris, where Dulles, Britain's Macmillan, France's Pinay and eleven other NATO foreign ministers received der Alte in their midst...
Nobody is noble in these stories. These are the "maimed souls" and the ferociously maternal types whose footless magnanimity seems unfailingly to destroy those around them. In the title story, the fatal female is the grandmother who chatters, "People are certainly not nice like they used to be," and nags her son's vacationing family into driving off on a side road. Instead of finding the six-columned mansion she insists she remembers, they run into three escaped convicts who rob and shoot the lot, the babbling old feather-wit last of all. Good Country People looses Mrs.Hopewell...
...Bolts. Like all U.S. race drivers, Wilbur Shaw lived for the Memorial Day 500. "May 30 is Christmas, birthday and all the other nice days rolled into one," he wrote in his autobiography. Gentlemen, Start Your Engines, published last week (Coward-McCann; $5). "If you get into the Indianapolis 500, no matter what the outcome, you feel amply repaid for a year of work." For Shaw, the big race at the Speedway was worth more than a year-it was worth his whole life. From the day he first raced (and thoroughly wrecked) his own car-a homemade...
Among musicals, the most winning were the first and last to open-The Boy Friend and Damn Yankees. Silk Stockings and Fanny were both lavish and hollow; more rewarding were House of Flowers, which bloomed brightly before it drooped, and Plain and Fancy, which had a nice Pennsylvania Dutch tang if not always enough musicomedy verve...
...knowing them, knowing when to bring in another. Alston's brought in the right pitchers at the right time." Just as important" is Alston's other talent, the patience and ability to get the most out of all his men. All season, by winning for such a nice guy as Smokey, the Dodgers had been refuting Giant Manager Leo Durocher, a man devoted to the argument that the big leagues are no place for nice guys. Said Peewee: "Alston is easy to get along with. I don't know whether he knows how to hold his fork...