Word: smiles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...question period that followed his speech. Mendès-France answered the reporters' queries expertly. The final question was a stinger-"Do you think Mr. Dulles would be happier if you were ousted as Premier?"-and Mendès read it with a faint smile. "My suggestion to the author of this very interesting question," he said, "is: the best way to know the answer is to ask Mr. Dulles...
...reply drew a hearty laugh from the press, and Mendès waited for silence, his smile growing broader. ". . . And so I will do this afternoon," he added. The laughter rose again, louder. "And," said Mendès-France finally, "I don't venture to prophesy, but I am quite sure he will say no." That brought down the house...
Director Richard Brooks has played every scene at such a high plateau of emotions that the major ones can hardly be distinguished from the minor. Van Johnson, well-known for his engaging smile, is admirably miscast as a struggling writer. All he can do is screw up his face a little more as each scene reaches new heights of emotional seriousness. By the grand climactic scene, when he goes to his dead wife's sister to plead for the return of his baby girl, the grimace has reached Hallowe'en proportions. "I gotta have 'er back," he pleads, "because...
...choice entertainment; but, as usual, the promise was mostly unfulfilled. Maine's Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith returned from a brief trip to Russia and checked in with Ed Murrow and See It Now (CBS-TV). Ex-Newshen Smith reported little that was new, concluded: "The Soviet leaders smile only with their faces-never with their hearts; the little people smile with their hearts-when they get a chance to do so." Historian Arnold Toynbee showed up on the usually exhilarating radio show Conversation (NBC) to discuss "My Favorite Era," but offered nothing more than the desire...
...Christmas cards (many showing Jesus "with tumbling curls and simpering smile''), which are peddled to the trade in three categories: "religious,"' "deeply religious" and "profoundly religious...