Word: slenderness
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...Angel. In his middle 40s, João Alberto is tallish, slender. A nervous tic periodically distorts his face. His kindly, scholarly bearing does not match his violent past or his present push. Brazilians tell some cynical tales about his appetite for money, and they remember his successful but intensely unpopular term as Federal Interventor in the rebellious State of São Paulo. He plays the piano beautifully, has almost memorized his favorite book, The Arabian Nights. He speaks English, is pro-American, has a son in the U.S. Air Forces. Among his pals: Sumner Welles and Carmen Miranda...
...ugly duckling painted on the bow. The duckling pointed to itself with one wing and above was the legend, "Who, Me?" The skipper was Theodore Berlin, a slender, dark Reservist of 22 who had come to the Navy from the University of California at Los Angeles...
Stinkers Are Stinkers. Slender, well-tailored, attractive Mary Haworth (pronounced Hay'worth) has been doling out reprimands, advice and praise to the Post's sentimental readers for more than nine years. Mostly because she is not averse to calling a stinker a stinker, her "Mary Haworth's Mail" is one of the most widely read columns in the Washington area. Lord Lothian, late British ambassador to the U.S., once told Post Publisher Eugene Meyer that after the front-page news and the editorials he always turned to Mary Haworth...
...months John Van Ness, 19, has fought with the Marines. When they landed on Guadalcanal, he was one of the tiny group that survived the Japs' withering cross fire on the beaches, battled for 118 days without replacement. All this his slender, greying father, Lloyd, has had in mind as he works in Curtiss-Wright's plane-propeller plant in Caldwell, N.J. Last week, Lloyd Van Ness passed his 1,000th consecutive day on the job. He has not taken a Saturday, Sunday or holiday off for nearly three years. Said Iron Man Van Ness...
...though Phil Murray and his largest member union differed in detail, they were agreed on the main point. Summed up slender, serious Victor Reuther, U.A.W. resolutions chairman: "I do not believe that labor should make a blind date...