Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Strongman Juan Perón changed his Foreign Minister and shook up his police command last week, leading some observers to think they smelled the smoke of a flaming crisis. One rumor even had it that Perón himself might resign the next day. But there was no flare-up, only the volcanic smoke and rumbles normal to Perón's Argentina...
...ready: bare walls, hard chairs and rattling music racks, all neuter in a thin fluorescent light. But as Sinatra stands up to the mike, tie loose and blue palmetto hat stuck on awry, his cigarette hung slackly from his lips, a mood curls out into the room like smoke. He begins to sing, hips down and shoulders hunched, hands shaping the big rhythms and eyes rolling with each low-down line. The musicians come to life, the wallbirds start to smile and weave with the very special sound that is Sinatra. Instead of the old adolescent moo, the Sinatra voice...
...Smoke Out of the Chute-Accelerate from the starting line with tires spinning...
...Your article was good, but why do you suggest that all of the people moved out there to escape the smog and traffic here in Los Angeles? You know darn well that New York City has as much smoke and traffic as we do. And when you wrote of the desert, why didn't you tell about the sand storms and the wind that blows and blows each night, and that terrible heat-like a blowtorch...
Died. Margo Jones, 41, founder and managing director of the Dallas Theatre-in-the-Round, Broadway producer (Summer and Smoke}, director (Joan of Lorraine); of uremic poisoning; in Dallas...