Word: smiles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TELL the average Northerner that if integration is made effective in public schools, it will be followed by demands for integration in churches, in fraternities, in society-in other words, complete social equality-and that Northerner will give you a smile of derision or unbelief...
...Johnny Carson, 29-year-old comic of CBS's The Johnny Carson Show (Thurs. 10 p.m., E.D.T.). With a droll sense of humor. Carson never raises his voice, but has an effective way of raising an eyebrow, and he combines a slow double-take with a quick smile. Given good material, he could be irresistibly funny...
...rest of the war at Fort Oglethorpe and Fort Meade, and was discharged as a private. Returning to his native Chicago, he joined the Legion and plunged into its politics. In moments of Legion political crisis, Ringley's favorite maxim is: "When you're hurt, you smile and sharpen your knife...
...U.S.S.R.'s ace front man, Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov, headed home from the U.N.'s tenth anniversary whoop-de-do in San Francisco. Flashing a toothy smile from under his grey mustache, Molotov deported himself like anybody's lovable old maiden aunt, exuding good will and sedate good humor. When his eastbound train reached Utah, he was handed a security-cleared "Military Map of the U.S.," showing key military installations as of 1953 and bearing printed regrets that censorship prevented inclusion of newer facilities. Arriving in Chicago, Tourist Molotov was greeted by a band of grim...
...first time and prefaced with a perceptive introduction by Critic Lionel Trilling. Like another Eastern Jewish writer, Sholom Aleichem, Babel was a folk artist of the ghetto. To Aleichem (TIME, April 25), the ghetto was as comforting as a mother's lap, and he could always smile through the tears; to Babel it was just a prison cell which he tramped with despairing irony. Laconic and deadpan in style, his autobiographical stories are nonetheless as anguished and personal as a scream...