Word: smartness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Leslie, 32-financed it ($20,000) largely through Wall Street's Jack Dreyfus (the Dreyfus Fund) and Stock Market Letter Writer Walter Gutman (Shields & Co.). After its recent premiere at the San Francisco Film Festival, Judge Barnaby (Matador) Conrad declared: "I liked it until Kerouac got the 'smart jacks'-what I send my child to bed for doing." But Producers Frank and Leslie, now busily showing the film to distributors, are confident that it will soon thumb a ride with a glossy, full-length Hollywood feature, carry its cryptic message of the Beats to the neighborhood theater...
Soon Rooney became maudlin, talked about his good marital fortunes and his wonderful children. His sentences might have been composed by Casey Stengel. Rooney: "But I again sound like tongue-in-cheek I seem somewhat as a smart aleck about something that's very so so wonderful." Paar: "I think you're loaded." Rooney: "I'm making a puzzling situation out of myself to you." Paar (to audience): "Don't stir him up or we're dead...
Most of the students are married. Going back to school, they say, has brought many a family closer. Impressed husbands are tackling the dishes at last, and housewives who were bored before are now hitting the books to the awed astonishment of their children ("Mummy will soon be as smart as teacher," boasts one five-year-old). "There aren't any dodgers among us," says Pamela Buckley, housewife. "We're here because we want to be here. We've just got to make good." Says delighted Educator Taylor: "It seems as if there are literally thousands...
...likely to be in front of it. Sam Huff is strong enough to flatten a plunging fullback such as the Chicago Bears' Rick Casares (6 ft. 2½ in., 225 Ibs.), swift enough to recover from a block in time to nail a halfback sprinting around end, smart enough to diagnose pass patterns and throw an offensive end off stride with an artful shoulder. But Huff is at his rugged best when he knifes through the line and "red-dogs" a quarterback as he fades to pass...
...studies to make sure the new car had precisely the right "personality." Research showed that Mercury buyers were generally young and hot-rod-inclined, while Pontiac, Dodge and Buick appealed to middle-aged people. Edsel was to strike a happy medium. As one researcher said, it would be "the smart car for the younger executive or professional family on its way up." To get this image across, Ford even went to the trouble of putting out a 60-page memo on the procedural steps in the selection of an advertising agency, turned down 19 applicants before choosing Manhattan...