Word: soberer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Steely Glint. In his new job General Taylor wears sober civilian suits, but they do nothing to cloak the commanding air of a professional soldier. Though he is doing his best to fit in with the freewheeling White House staffers-as non-military a group as any college faculty-the first time one of the resident eggheads greeted Taylor with an airy "Good morning, Max," the glint of steel flashed in the general's eye. But Taylor managed to restrain his celebrated talent for chewing out an offender and smiled a casual hello...
...lives, job-shirking relief chiselers who loaf at government expense, and tax burdens that soar higher every year. Can the side effects be nullified without crimping the cure? Last week one city answered with a resounding yes -and in the process, Newburgh, N.Y., gave the nation cause for some sober second thoughts on the use-and misuse-of civil charity...
...stock houses by the traditional method-milking Broadway cows turned out to pasture (this season: Under the Yum-Yum Tree, The Pleasure of His Company, etc.). But he has also mixed in Wilde, Williams, Sherwood, and Giraudoux, giving the Kennebunkport Playhouse a high reputation among actors, critics, and the sober side of his audiences. Performers are fond of returning there, including Tallulah Bankhead, Henry Morgan, Russell Nype, and Currier's own sister, Singer Jane Morgan...
...makes his point by inviting a smile, Cover Subject Mauldin has a sober view of his trade. He thinks that "the American public highly overrates its sense of humor. We're great belly laughers and prat fallers, but we never really did have a real sense of humor. Not satire anyway. We're a fatheaded, cotton-picking society. When we realize finally that we aren't God's given children, we'll understand satire. Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery." He thinks times are getting worse-and therefore better...
...Kiddie Corps. Blasingame, who atones for his paltry .240 average with speed and spirit, seemed to congeal the Red infield. Hulking First Baseman Gordon Coleman, playing regularly for the first time, proved a surprise with a .299 average, 18 home runs, 55 runs batted in. Sober, balding Eddie Kasko developed into one of the most reliable shortstops around. At third, Freese. reputed to be a weak glove man, was fielding, as Pittsburgh Manager Danny Murtaugh put it, "like he had a monkey gland...