Word: short
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Konrad Adenauer is a man used to making his own lonely decisions. With single-minded discipline and skill, he has done more than anyone else to raise his country from ruin and disgrace to riches and repute in ten short years. And it was his command decisions which committed West Germany firmly to Western Europe and the Atlantic Alliance...
Bouncing into view before some 2,000 University of California at Los Angeles students, Elder Statesman Harry S. Truman, 74, sprang a surprise on his listeners: U.C.L.A. has offered him a short-term regents' lectureship and "When I get here, you may be sorry!" On another whistle stop in Los Angeles, Campaigner Truman, addressing some rapt businessmen, looked ahead to 1960, backhandedly nominated Vice President Richard Nixon as his own preferred G.O.P. White House aspirant: "I hope [the Republicans] don't bury him until after the next election. He'll be the easiest to lick...
...Mike did this spontaneous roll-out," explained the short, intense young man, "and there was something nasty in the music. I just blurted out, 'You ain't nuthin' but a hound dog,' and there it was." Hound Dog, as bawled by Elvis Presley, sold 5,000,000 records, enthroned Tunesmiths Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller as kings of the state of annoyance called rock 'n' roll. In all, their raucous inspirations have since sold 27 million records, and last week their latest, Charlie Brown, made its first million...
...ceremony of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was not going to fill its allotted time. "You know more than NBC?" growled Wald. "Yes," shot back Cahn. But no one was listening. Next day, when the show went on for TV audiences across the U.S., it was short indeed. It was also pretty bad. Even the early part of the show was poorly organized, unimpressively staged, and sometimes blatantly vulgar. At the end, M.C. Jerry Lewis was left to mug his way through an unplanned 20-minute melee that had the somewhat sweaty aroma of a combination Arthur...
Fred Karp, of Brighton, has shown considerable versatility in the outfield, at third, and at short in the early season and has just recently been moved to the first pase position. Jim Dwinell, former Choate hockey and baseball player, is Samborski's choice for a starting role at third base but is able to fill in equally well at any of the infield positions...