Word: said
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...examination preceding the trial in which J. J. will strive to get a slice of Vincent's estimated $120 million fortune, Brooke Astor told of Vincent's deep feeling for J. J.: "Nothing but contempt." Captain Astor, a Navy officer in both World Wars, regarded J. J., said Brooke Astor, daughter of a Marine Corps general, as "the most useless and worthless member of society, and he despised him because he was a slacker and a draft evader...
What Shaw also confessed about Heartbreak House was that he wrote it just as it came to him, with no formal plan. He need hardly have said so; along with largeness of conception goes a looseness of treatment, as much sprawl as size. As Shaw's characters explain themselves and react on one another in an evening-long, often brilliant conversation piece, something veers toward tragedy, something else explodes into farce, a philosophic aria gives way to a dialectical trio, fireworks light up the scene, flummery disfigures it. Heartbreak House is quite marvelous in bits and pieces...
More Evidence. While not necessarily endorsing Murrow, many industry veterans wondered whether Stanton's definition of deception was not too broad. Said Writer-Producer Goodman Ace, whose opening Big Party earned Stanton's ire because it falsely purported to be a soiree at the Waldorf: "Does Mr. Stanton want me to believe that Rochester works for Jack Benny, that it was really George De Witt's own hair on Name That Tune?" Comedians moaned that without canned laughter they may well get none at all; politicians feared that they may have to tell when their speeches...
...absolutely ridiculous. It smacks of sweeping generalization, always a bad habit, and dictates an inseparable link between appearance and intellect that does not exist." Mounting a crusade for Jim Babinetz, the Telegram interviewed Teacher Hilliard Anderson of Humber-crest public school, who happens to weigh 325 Ibs. Said he: "My size commands authority." The rival Toronto Star took a different tack. Since Jim is now eager to shed 60-80 Ibs., the Star hired a specialist to slim Jim, promised readers daily reports. Already Jim is down to 265 Ibs., aims to level...
...more than 210 Ibs. Did he agree that a fat teacher is a bad teacher? With citizens clamoring for an answer, Dunlop took cover in the explanation that obesity is dangerous, busied himself with plans to reduce Jim Babinetz and get him back into teachers college. Said chubby Minister Dunlop: "It's purely a health matter...