Word: puckishness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pastel Thinking. Last year Los Alamos got a new superintendent, F. Robert Wegner, who gave it to them with bells on. Puckish Bob Wegner, 49, a man with shock-white hair and a youthful spirit, had once started a near-rebellion in Roslyn, Long Island, when he set his students to baking nut bread to teach them arithmetic (TIME, March 21, 1938). He went to Los Alamos from the Navy, where, as a lieutenant commander, he had bossed radio and rocket schools...
Born. To Danny Kaye (real name: David Daniel Kaminski), 33, puckish, nimble-tongued comedian, and Sylvia Fine Kaye, 33, who wrote the tongue-twisting patter songs that first made her husband famous: their first child, a daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Dena. Weight...
Come Work with Me. Young (33), puckish Correspondent Sam Boal had come up through a succession of routine newspaper jobs. Back from a wartime OWI assignment, he was sounding off about bad foreign-news coverage at a Manhattan cocktail party. The Post's Editor Ted Thackrey heard him, said: "If you're so damn good, come down and work for me." That was a year and a half ago. Now Thackrey calls Boal "one of the best men we have," gives him a free hand and $250 a week (including expenses). But Sam Boal is glad to give...
Tall (6 ft.), skinny (152 Ibs.) and Cassius-cheeked, Danny is a handsome man-barring his Pinocchio nose. His face, rosy and puckish, is extraordinarily mobile. His mouth is big, his chin square, his eyes blue and easy-rolling. His hair has nervously changed from red to brown to blond at various stages of his life. Current color: carrot. His hands were once described by a critic as "the most expressive since Eleonora Duse...
From deep in the central U.S. a puckish zephyr danced northward, trailing an unseasonable perfume of spring across the central and maritime provinces. Dandelions bloomed in Hamilton. Three tulips popped up outside Fort Erie's police station; Elgin County farmers got in some early plowing; a Proton farmer tapped some maple trees, found the sap running. At Goderich the courthouse lawn had to be trimmed. Bees and mosquitoes began buzzing around Dundalk. A flock of blackbirds chirped near Truro...