Word: sidney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...country, an able administrator, a good speaker, gifted with the intellect and energy to guide Canada's destiny as Prime Minister or serve as a rousing leader of the opposition in Parliament. The man best qualified and most frequently mentioned as a dark-horse candidate last week was Sidney Earle Smith, 59, president of the University of Toronto...
...head of the country's biggest university, Sidney Smith has made a notable reputation as an administrator; he boosted the school's enrollment 65% (to 11,500) and launched a $60 million expansion program in the past ten years. Educator Smith has also traveled widely throughout Canada, winning countless friends with his genial ways and his thought-provoking speeches on almost every aspect of contemporary Canadian life (TIME, Oct. 6, 1952). He has been a champion of civil liberties, a critic of Anglophiles who would keep Canada more dependent on Britain ("They want us to ape the English...
...might say." Collaring a local United Pressman, she crowed for quotation: "They're not hiding too much of me. Just enough so people can hear the dialogue." However, Jayne reserved her most intimate confidence-about her current flame, protein-packed Mickey ("Mr. Universe") Har-gitay-for Columnist Sidney Skolsky: "Mickey has a 52-inch chest expansion and I measure over 40 inches-and we both have short arms. All this makes dancing difficult...
Said the University of Toronto's President Sidney Smith to his students: "If you choose to work, you will succeed; if you don't, you will fail. If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it. If you join little cliques, you will be self-satisfied; if you make friends widely, you will be interesting. If you gossip, you will be slandered; if you mind your own business, you will be liked. If you act like a boor, you will be despised; if you act like a human being...
Stanley's Producer-Director Max (Show of Shows) Liebman spotted Hackett on Broadway two seasons ago as the tippling racketeer in Sidney Kingsley's Lunatics and Lovers and signed him for two one-shot shows. After a season of high-flying spectaculars-some right out of left field -Liebman decided to return, with Hackett, to more fertile, familiar soil (other Liebman proteges: Danny Kaye, Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca). Liebman regards Hackett as the best "take" artist since Caesar, i.e., he reacts strongly to people and things. "With Buddy," says Liebman, "it's usually the 'take...