Word: smoothness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soak the Rich. Having already borrowed the legal limit from the Bank of France and hoping to borrow more to offset the government deficit, Mollet had encountered Bank of France Governor Wilfrid Baumgartner, conscientious keeper of the country's precious bullion reserves. Said smooth, silver-haired Baumgartner: "I want collateral-taxes. And quickly." Mollet's answer: a soak-the-rich tax program that hit corporation earnings, dividends and inventories, added four francs per liter...
...Mirror-lined, plushly padded, it opened a year ago as a refuge for after-theater drinkers, celebrities and celebrity seekers ("The beautiful Red Carpet," says its ad. "enjoys the brilliant reputation of being 'The Place' "). The bored piano trio that alternates with the featured singer specializes in smooth-as-cream show tunes and a sleepy metronome beat. In pink satin pajamas, West Coast Pianist-Singer Kitty White pounds out a bouncing, husk-voiced version of Almost Like Being in Love, clowns through a rubber-faced Love for Sale. Her most effective number. Mountain High, Valley Low, stops...
...beanballing pitchers sensed beneath his solid (6 ft., 182 Ib.) frame. His novel system for breaking up a double play (TIME, May 6) has forced a change in the rulebook.* Last week his timely hitting helped his team take two out of three games from the Giants; his smooth work at third left Shortstop Roy McMillan free to team up with Second Baseman Johnny Temple in one of the best double-play combinations in baseball. The Redlegs, who started the season slowly, are all playing their own game by now, at week's end were...
Economic fumbling and pressure on the banks at last turned Colombia's business. men against Rojas; corruption and killing earned him the wrath of the church. Toward the end of last week, ignoring Rojas' attempt to smooth over the rift, Colombia's Primate Crisanto Cardinal Luque issued a pastoral letter with his bitterest attack yet on Rojas. That night, the dictator's military supporters gathered for a worried meeting...
...next scene, at home with her pompously native husband, Richard Smithies. He often appears pleasantly outrageous, but he can also wallow in ugly pomp. He seems a bit closer to sixty years old than to forty. His next scene, with The Little Miss, is somewhat slow and less smooth--shoulder-kneading can be awkward--but Gail Jones is exactly as virtuous a coquette as she should be. She succeeds again opposite John van Itallie, as The Poet, in a particularly fresh scene. Her indignantly stating "I'm not stupid," delays things a bit; he, delighted, waves back "Of course...