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Dave McDonald, the Steelworkers' handsome chief, put on his best scowl last week as he posed for a TV film, and essayed some rolling perorations in the inimitable manner of the master, John L. Lewis. McDonald cried that in the current negotiations the steel industry had made an "about-face" on 20 years of collective bargaining, and given his union an "ultimatum" to accept a "substandard contract." After four weeks of negotiating between McDonald and U.S. Steel's John Stephens, the industry's chief spokesman, the differences boiled down to i) a union demand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Summer Strike? | 7/2/1956 | See Source »

William Holden, wearing a mustache and a scowl, plays a hard-boiled Marine colonel who flourishes a swagger stick, derides the Red Cross for dishing out "sentimental slop" to his boys, eats out a chaplain simply because the troops, attending a prayer meeting called by the reverend, got sprayed by Japanese mortar shells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 18, 1956 | 6/18/1956 | See Source »

...even finished his pudding when his date took his arm and suggested they leave. He ignored her scowl when he strode past the door which a girl was holding open for her friend. After bidding a farewell, he bid a hasty retreat to Hayes-Bick...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dinner at Radcliffe | 11/26/1955 | See Source »

...never has been as dangerous as she is right now. At this moment, even the best-informed can do no more than guess at Russia's real intentions. Everybody is saying: "Russia has changed." And so she has. Until a few weeks ago her face wore a perpetual scowl. Today it is all smiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDGMENTS & PROPHECIES: SECOND THOUGHTS ON GENEVA | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

...back to singing. Byron was word-perfect in his monster role before he was out of his teens. Henceforth, the clubfoot and the sensitive heart hid themselves in the disguise of a cold, cloven-hoofed devil. On his brow, at a moment's notice, would appear "that singular scowl" which caused one acquaintance to exclaim that he "had never seen a man with such a Cain-like mark on the forehead." A Pair of Stays. A Miss Elizabeth Pigot had the honor of discovering that Byron was addicted to poetry. When she read him some poems of Burns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: TheMost Amiable Monster | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

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