Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...secret that they were privately counting on the Cabinet to furnish some of their best bets. One was Princeton-bred, Wall Street-trained Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal, who some day might be Secretary of National Defense. He was geographically perfect, ideologically sound, would add tone to the ticket. His big drawback was that he had never even run for dogcatcher...
...handsomest and rottenest aristocracies in Europe munched Europe's creamiest cream puffs. At Ro-sati's, they sipped their Martinis under the blind eyes of an ominous, seven-foot statue of Augustus Caesar, Rome's first Emperor-tyrant. And only five miles away, in an almost perfect circle, stretched the filthy, swarming manheaps of the Roman slums. The worst of them was nicknamed "Shanghai"-which to Italians is a synonym for total degeneracy. Here 15,000 Romans lived in one-room shacks; watermarks on the walls, above bed level, told of rain and mud floods. Said...
Crowned: Cinemactress Alexis Smith, by roly-poly California Sculptor Yucca Salamunich. who says she has The Sexiest Head in Hollywood. Judy Garland, Salamunich decided, has The Least Sexy Head. Excerpt from the admiring sculptor's informal citation to Miss Smith: "She has the perfect North American head. Those high cheekbones and yunnnh! That nose! Long and straight. Passionate women always have long, straight noses...
...boat skipper, had saluted with purple poesy and erotic prose. One (whom he called "Tirana") was a nightclub singer named Lorraine De Wood; the Daily News found her in Milwaukee and hustled her to Manhattan, where Hearst's Journal-American headlined her story MEE PERFECT LOVER...
Despite a limp (one leg is shorter than the other), he has rolled more perfect (300) games, 68 in all, than anyone else. He can and does bowl with either hand, with both at the same time, with his foot. In Detroit, where bowling goes biggest in the U.S., he gets $900 a week when he puts on exhibitions. Says he: "If I'd been a golfer, I would have putted with precision. As a bowler, I am a master of rhythm." Varipapa's confidence is unbruised by the fact that in 16 tries he has never...