Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then Vanatta's skill began to show. He knew what to expect from his last year's players, and he sent his Memphis Tigers back on the court prepared for Bradley's all-court press. Slowing the game, picking their play patterns carefully, hitting the basket with sudden accuracy, the Tigers moved into the lead. They held on even after their star, Win Wilfong, fouled out, were in front 83-81 with less than a minute to go. Then the referees seemed to lose their whistles; players sprawled all over the court, fouling and being fouled...
...croquet with the careless good form of a man who does not have to worry about making his satiric points. He plays for the box-office score instead, working the sex angles and the big names and the "production values" -yum-yum Metrocolor, flossy furniture, slinky clothes-with the skill of a cold old pro. The comedy is kept on a fairly low commercial plane too. The funniest line concerns a retired pugilist. "Who is that man with no nose?" asks wife Bacall suspiciously. "Oh, he has a nose," says husband Peck defensively. "It's inside...
...impact of the tragedy was diverted by the comedy that followed. In Six Strings Cut, author Wally Lawrence shows skill and a lighthearted touch, the delightfully amusing production owes much to Thomas Teal's alert direction; his comic inventiveness shows great promise. Lee Jeffries and Jim Stinson worked wonderfully together as Sally and Herby, two would-be-night-club performers competing for an audition in a wouldbe nightclub. Her flouncy ingenuousness and accessibility, and his energy and pleasant unscrupulousness created brilliant little scenes. The production as a whole displayed surprising polish and timing...
...found dancing skill of Kwame Nkrumah, Prime Minister of the new British Commonwealth country of Ghana (TIME, March 18), was fully explained by Lucille Armstrong, wife of Trumpeter Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong. "Two weeks before Nkrumah danced with the Duchess of Kent, he couldn't do a step," said she. "He was worried about the inaugural ball and implored me to teach him to dance. So I tried him with a quick step first-Blueberry Hill. Each evening after dinner in his private sitting room we practiced for an hour with music played on records. Well, man, 48 hours before...
...including two other surgeons) in the Bailey Thoracic Clinic performed no fewer than 15 heart operations, one with the heart-lung machine and one to close a septal defect. Within Charles Bailey's lifetime, surgery has changed from a relatively blunt and blind art, executed singlehanded. into a skill supported by a team of experts and a world of machines delicate enough to approach the center of life itself. Yet unlike his predecessor. Stephen Paget. Bailey refuses to believe there are no more conquests ahead. As he sees it, nothing is impossible in surgery. Bailey looks forward...