Word: nice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tiny (5 ft., 118 lbs.) Armand Chankalian, administrative assistant to U.S. Attorney Lane. Chankalian testified that not until 1950 had he come to realize that his good friend, Tommy Luchese, had so lurid a past. Then, said Chankalian, he had told Luchese, "I introduced you to some very nice people, and I owe an obligation to them . . . I'm sorry, I can't see you any more . . ." Informed that his car had been seen in front of Luchese's home four times after he last admitted to having seen his three-fingered friend, Chankalian was dumfounded. Said...
Died. Margaret Wise Brown, 42, best-selling author of childrens' books (more than 60 in 15 years) under various pen names (Golden MacDonald, Timothy Hay); of complications following an appendectomy; in Nice, France. Author Brown did much of her work in a deserted old house on the Maine coast liked the challenge of writing for five-year-olds because she thought they were at the height of their sensory awareness...
When Bette Davis does the hula, it's a bit like watching your aunt get roaring drunk at a party. It's nice to see she has the spirit, but it's also a little embarrassing. The introduction to the new Miss Davis in the second scene of Two's Company is abrupt and somewhat painful. She manages her high kicks with admirable but all too obvious effort, and her rasping, often inaudible singing voice inspires vicarious throat-clearing in the audience...
...done by sign language. "It was wonderful the way the representative from all the countries mixed," he says. "The Russians were very friendly. We could visit them and they came to us." Hawkins thinks that Americans are all wrong about the Russian women. "Some of them were quite nice. The only ones that made the newspapers were the discus throwers...
...their girls, a diver,was particularly nice. She could speak a little English and did a lot of interpreting for the others. This same girl, according to Hawkins broke out of the Russian camp one night and went out with an Australian diver. They went to a club and in a movie in downtown Helsinki, all against Soviet training rules...