Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marauders. His own brilliant Army career cut short when a third heart attack in Manila forced his retirement as a major general in 1948, Merrill was always acutely conscious of what his men had undergone. He attended their annual Labor Day reunions religiously, wrote them letters all year round, kept them out of trouble, lent them money...
This week, after a look at the Bronx Zoo and a round of parties in Manhattan, Father Tuck and Prince Rainier were off on an eight-week tour that will include an appointment with President Eisenhower, Christmas in Delaware, and introductions to eligible girls from California to Texas (as a 2nd lieutenant in the French army in World War II, Rainier served as a liaison officer with the Texas 36th Infantry Division). Like the Monégasques, Father Tuck fervently hopes that he will be singing a royal nuptial Mass soon, and that Monaco will live happily ever after...
Last week they learned how wrong they were. After spending a few more weeks studying their empty testimony, Lawyer Helfand threw a massive book at every single member of the Managers' Guild. In round and rolling phrases that are seldom heard over coffee and bagels on Jacobs' Beach, he accused the guild of engaging in "vague and shadowy" activities, of actions that were at once "malevolent, monopolistic, flagrant, shocking, vicious, arbitrary and illegal, absolute and autocratic, underhanded and dishonest." Guild members, said Helfand, had consorted with "the sinister and shadowy figure of the notorious Frankie Carbo,"and, what...
Game of Love. Two French adolescents drift in the warm round of young love: a modern vegetation mystery made from a novel by Colette (TIME...
...return for one night in the dealer's slot, Schwiefka bails him out. Frightened and discouraged, Frankie is an easy mark for the needle of Louie, the dope peddler (Darren McGavin), who suggests that just one little fix is all he needs to get him round the bend. One fix leads to another, and another to another, until one day he is sitting in a cheap hotel with a price on his head and nothing to stop the pain of being alive. He begs a blonde tramp (Kim Novak) who loves him to get him just...