Word: pies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eyeglasses. That boisterous Democratic spirit has not flagged in Private Citizen Truman. At 72, his grey hair is thinning, his belt is let out a little (Vietta Garr, the Trumans' longtime cook, has orders to hold down on her specialty, chocolate pie). Nowadays, without the White House valet to start him out, he sometimes wears his tropical suits a day too long. The white dress shirts of his presidential days have given way to soft sport shirts, the crisp handkerchief is no longer inevitable in his breast pocket...
...Some who have tried: Joe DiMaggio, Tommy Henrich, Dizzy Trout, Waite Hoyt, Gus Mancuso, Jack Graney, Harry Heilman, Gabby Street, Pie Traynor, Bump Hadley, Mickey Heath, Dizzy ("He slud into second") Dean, Buddy Blattner, Frankie Frisch...
...elaborate it with floods of notes in rhythmically diverse patterns. Explains Manhattan's Tony Scott: "I want the simple cry of jazz that a gospel singer might put in five notes−only I may use 15." The effect is a bit like vanilla frosting on a beef pie−interesting, but not wholly palatable...
...Rose Tattoo. Anna Magnani, in her Oscar-winning role, serves up Tennessee Williams' comitragedy as a wonderful pizza-pie farce−and the spectator gets it smack in the eye (TIME...
...Assistant Sherman Adams and White House aides signing bills, dictating a few letters, getting out of the way other routine but essential paperwork of his office. Through Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, he kept up with the international field. But the executive branch was not in the apple-pie shape Ike would like, e.g., he could see French Foreign Minister Pineau only briefly; the conference of American Presidents in Panama, postponed because of his illness, awaited rescheduling...