Word: smile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With a quiet smile the gamblers slipped fresh boutonnieres into their black silk lapels and got the games going for slim crowds on the day the decree came out. Florida Mobster Santo Trafficante Jr., who attended the famous gangland congress at Apalachin, N.Y. in November 1957, is still bossing the games at the Comodoro and the Sans Souci. He also keeps an eye on the Capri casino, where his associate is Mobster Charles ("The Blade") Tourine. Gambler Joseph Silesi. wanted for questioning after the New York barbershop murder of Top Hood Albert Anastasia, is casino manager at the Hilton. None...
...background is an arresting mixture of black and white ancestry, of Harlem harshness and the West Indian languor, of Broadway jazz caves, Greenwich Village hash houses, efficient modern recording studios. Throughout he has clung to a certain tough quality that can flash out as easily as his boyish smile. Recently TV Director Don Medford tried to define the key to Belafonte's dramatic magnetism: "Behind him is this hard core of hostility. Like Brando, Jimmy Dean, Rod Steiger, he's loaded with it." The quality lends a demon drive to Belafonte's career and immense conviction...
...seemed a very kind man, shy but friendly, with an English tweed jacket and a smile all his own. "I thought you might be the telephone man; I'm expecting someone this morning to connect the phone. I understand you have some questions to ask; I wish you could have left them earlier; I'm not really so good at this sort of thing. But do come...
...charge may well provoke a wry smile in Frondizi -for he thinks that the U.S., far from "buying" any Latin American, neglects its obligations to its neighbors. Saying so, diplomatically but succinctly, to Congress and the press was his major mission as he visited the U.S. And even as he served as his people's advocate, his government had to fight back his misguided opponents at home...
American Red Cross President Alfred M. Gruenther, a four-star Army general at his retirement in 1956 after 38 years of commissioned service, smiled a thin smile in Omaha when reminded of the familiar G.I. gripe that officers have better luck than ordinary soldiers in dating Red Cross lasses on military duty overseas. Said Realist Gruenther, tersely: "They did, they do and they will...