Word: personal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never to set foot in the Polo Grounds again. In Brooklyn, there were stand-up-&-fight arguments in Flatbush bars. Breezy Leo Durocher, once referred to as a "moral bankrupt" by a baseball club owner (out of print, he has been called worse names), was not the kind of person who invited neutrality...
After thinking it over, Justice Douglas spared Harry Truman his gamble. Said he: "No person, while a member of the Supreme Court, should seek political preferment ... I say definitely and finally that I am not available for any public office...
...Health-but ought we not rather to say the Minister of Disease; for is not morbid hatred a form of mental disease, and indeed a highly infectious form? I can think of no better step to signalize the inauguration of the National Health Service (see MEDICINE) than that a person who so obviously needs psychiatrical attention should be among the first of its patients...
...camera showed Mlle. Mala, a pretty actress named Irene Champlin and a Rubinstein operator named Nicky. "I am ready for the new look in make-up," Irene announced. But before going to work on the skin Mlle. Mala gave Irene a "person-alysis" (standard Rubinstein treatment). "If you want to be a good actress," she said, "concentrate on it. Without hard work we just achieve nothing." Delivered of this thought, Mlle. Mala told Nicky to "oval out [Irene's] jaws . . . utilize the cheekbones . . . bring more personality to the eyes . . . give the lips a little bit more luscious look...
...reads them all. Some of the best stuff is unsolicited: Columbia Historian Henry Steele Commager's article on the witch-hunt mentality ("Who Is Loyal to America?") which 65,000 readers requested in reprint, came in the morning mail. Ex-Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson arrived in person with his headline-making article on "The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb...