Word: slouchingly
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Anderson seemed passive. On the record, no slouch could have risen so fast from a poor cotton farm, worked his way through University of Texas Law School at top of his class, become a young expert in the state government's toughest troubleshooting jobs, and managed a $300 million cattle and oil empire. But Anderson's Washington reputation came mainly from his Navy Secretary days (1953-54), when he was known as a flexible, laconic worker who stayed out of headlines and was more willing to listen to others than to voice his own ideas. Now the news...
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...ponderous, but catlike on his feet, Sculptor David Smith, 51, works the year round in a studio he calls the Terminal Iron Works outside Bolton Landing (pop. 600) on the shores of upstate New York's Lake George. There he can jaw with the natives, slouch through the Adirondacks on the prowl for old harrows, car springs or rusting buggies-almost anything in metal that might be used as a starting point for the welded sculpture he introduced to U.S. art back...
Columbia Records, no slouch at thicket-hunting, bagged its latest prize in its own doorway. Barbara Eichbauer, 23, is a statuesque suburbanite who wandered into Manhattan looking for an advertising job and wound up instead as a Columbia receptionist. She had once done a little singing at a local inn back in Forest Hills, N.Y., and confided to fellow workers that she happened to have a privately made recording. Just about that time, Orchestra Leader Percy Faith, one of Columbia's stable, was looking for a young unvarnished voice to go with a young unvarnished song called What...
...long been set in. In The Big Land he plays the weak, silent type. At 5 ft. 7 in. and 145 lbs., Ladd has always sat fairly small in the saddle, but since turning to independent production, his stature has been diminished by a striking executive slouch. At times he hardly seems to come up to his horse's knee, let alone to the heroine's lips, and he spends most of his time trying to conceal the fact. He rides as little as possible, kisses the girl just once, and mumbles his lines as though he were...