Word: rumpledness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Charmingly Churlish. At 32, Colorado-born Harold Ross was an ex-itinerant newspaperman and ex-editor of the A.E.F.'s Stars and Stripes, a rumpled, rawboned man with electric hair. (Dorothy Parker cracked that her life ambition was to walk barefoot through it.) At 57, Ross can afford a...
Back to Gooseberry Tart. In Lincoln, hatless, slightly rumpled Attlee pointed aloft to the spires of the city's famed Norman and Gothic cathedral. "There is your heritage," he cried to his audience. "All around is your wealth, and here, in your hands and your brains, is your skill...
In Boston's dingy old Ames Building a month ago, Ernest F. Henderson, rumpled, fast-moving president of the Sheraton Hotel chain, got an urgent telephone call from Montreal. His Canadian manager, John C. Udd, excitedly told him that Canada's biggest private hotel chain, the Cardy Corp...
As the 81st Congress came back to its work last week, he slouched through the halls of the Capitol, a rumpled, craggy mountain of a man, smoking incessantly, dropping the ashes often as not on his shabby blue suit-the most promising, most controversial freshman the Senate had seen in...
The Fadeout. Around 11 a.m. Aly's pressagent stepped out of the clinic. "Gentlemen," he said portentously, "will you please stand by for an important announcement by Prince Aly Khan himself?" Rumpled and unshaven, Aly told the world: it was a ½lb. girl, a normal delivery, though "Rita...