Word: rashness
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Churchill was to the last a Romantic. Supremely confident in the history of his people, in the values they nourished, and in his own destiny, he dominated the consciousness of his country and finally the West for three decades. At times rash and impetuous, at times cooly rational, always active, aggressive, directing, he made his voice heard whether in power in the Commons, out of office from Chartwell, or in War over static-filled radio. And he prevailed. Despite the stooped shoulders, the squat figure, the pudgy features, we see him in a grand tableau of English history. He belongs...
...Kennedy has been treated to this sort of gratuitous attention from the fan and gossip-mongering magazines before. Two years ago, a rash of equally meretricious cover stories popped up on newsstands. One of the articles ruefully confessed that Jackie Kennedy hated Hollywood. If she didn't then, she has every reason...
...young Congressman, Johnson handed out diplomas in a mythical "I Cain't Do It Club" to anyone who had let him down. And, according to Lady Bird, when things were not done as quickly or as well as Johnson wanted, "he used to get a rash on his hands...
...parts. Since her rent-controlled Manhattan apartment costs so little, she sublets it and lives off her tiny capitalistic mite. Her latest boarder (Lou Antonio) is a big Hollywood stag hiding out from his studio. He has been afflicted with a bad case of that integrity rash that Hollywood celestials periodically get from banking lots of money...
Some Fresh Worries. Behind the rash of personnel announcements, though, many problems remained. The Saturday Evening Post, with 6,500,000 circulation, is not only Curtis' biggest magazine, but its only serious money loser with an estimated $10 million deficit this year. The board decided to make the Post a biweekly, effective with the first week in January, hoping thereby to cut losses drastically. The decision will also cause the layoff of 250 employees at Curtis' Lock Haven, Pa., papermaking plant. Perhaps as a further economy, the board chose not to replace the two rebel leaders, Editor...