Word: patly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gloria Vanderbilt di Cicco, who separated from her husband, Pasquale ("Pat") di Cicco, three weeks before she came into an inheritance of some $4,700,000, entrained for Reno's divorce mill, was caught with her guard down by an alert photographer en route...
Last month, by getting Eleanor Roosevelt to write an article for Confessions, the Brothers Fawcett reached respectability with a capital R. But big-name contributors are only incidental music to a magazine with so pat an editorial formula: 1) no heroine is ever extremely poor or rich, and no story is ever set in unfamiliar lands (Confessions' middle-class readers can thus envision themselves in every tell-all); 2) since the readers live drab lives, they naturally wonder what would have happened if they had gone sinning instead - and by reading about sin in True Confessions, they have...
...Siberia, Commissar "Mike" Kalugin ("strictly Tammany" said another U.S. correspondent) walked down a factory assembly line "talking to the workers, a wave of the hand to this one, a pat on the back for that - a ward-boss patrolling his precinct." But to Reporter White's Kansan eyes all these familiar people seemed to be living in "a moderately well run penitentiary, which kept [them] working hard and provided a bunk to sleep in, three daily meals and enough clothes to keep [them] warm." It was a prison whose "walls were covered with posters explaining that freedom and justice...
...Tree Grows in Brooklyn" has turned up on the screen quite cleaned up and edited, but the sordid spirit and the pat honesty are still very much in evidence. If the story is inclined to bore the avid action fan with its straightforward excess of emotion, then the indictment probably spares Hollywood and goes back to Betty Smith...
Radio announcers, oftener abused than praised for their, pronunciations of ticklish words, got a gentle pat on the back this week from Dr. James F. Bender, speech consultant for the National Institute for Human Relations. Writing in the New York Times magazine, he pronounced them "pretty good on the whole," invited readers to try their own tongues on a test compiled from the NBC Handbook of Pronunciation...