Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...give an uncanny impression of being 'just folks.' When asked about his success, his first answer is, "One very nice effect is that people I hadn't heard from in years suddenly began to write and I love that, you know. I even had a letter from someone I hadn't seen since Manila in '44." On the subject of his traditional hat he says, "When I was a kid in New York everyone over 21 wore a hat, unless you were a creep." And when he thinks about the recent movie offers and his agent's maneuverings, the shuddering...
...laugh. In fact, he was responsible for the biggest clean joke in theater history. As a speakeasy waiter in the 1927 musical Manhattan Mary, he hovered over a gangster who asked him what there was to eat. "Jelly roll," suggested the comedian, "or perhaps the gentleman would like some nice ladyfingers." "Ladyfingers!" roared the gunsel. "My God, I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!" Whereupon Wynn ran offstage and returned leading a full-grown sway-backed horse. It was almost a minute before the audience was quiet enough to hear Wynn's topper: "Will you have...
...that the G.O.P. presidential candidate was half-Jewish, his running mate a Catholic. "There is no office now closed to a Jew, including the presidency," says Javits, and he is convinced that a member of his faith will be a national candidate within the next decade. "It would be nice," he muses, "to be the fellow it happened...
Ronald Reagan likes to recall that he began his movie career 29 years ago as "the nice guy who didn't get the girl." Last week he walked off with some thing better: an astonishingly large victory in California's Republican gubernatorial primary. The Democrats, by contrast, gave Governor Pat Brown his third-term nomination by a sufficiently meager margin to establish Reagan as an attractive even-money bet in November's general election...
...clearly, does Candidate Reagan's personal appeal. Hollywood-handsome and remarkably youthful in appearance (he is 55), Reagan has also maintained a nice-guy, down-to-earth presence while perfecting a smooth platform style throughout a durable career as radio announcer, movie actor, lecturer and television performer (most recently as M.C. of Death Valley Days). In switching from show business to politics, Reagan undoubtedly also benefits from the precedent set by Fellow Republican, Fellow Actor George Murphy, who has settled soberly into the U.S. Senate seat from California that...