Word: speechlessness
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...when he'll be doing play-by-play sportcasts, "until they invent teletype in Braille," but he frankly hopes that his program will interest the networks. His chief worry: that a sudden shower at a game will ruin the perforated dots of his notes, leave him speechless at broadcast time...
Then two weeks ago came the electrifying news that the Communists in Rome had voted for the Lateran Pact. In Anticoli, Eugeni crowed cruelly, guffawed to speechless Don Vittorio: "Ha! Now you've got to work with me, just the way Togliatti has made De Gasperi work with him! Qui comando io!" In Roviano, wise old Scacchi said to his village priest, Don Mario Sargenti: "Now we must work together-I like all workers of the spade, you like all workers of the robe." This week in both towns another political party seems to be following the Socialists into...
...busy buying up the bogus Newsweek to make an extended statement, the Bow Street aviary nevertheless did manage to take time out between newsstands to declare that "this left us speechless." By last night, however, they were sufficiently recovered to direct their suspicions at the Yale Record...
...fear that "Lippy" Durocher had been rendered speechless by love began to haunt deepest Brooklyn. Out in California, 3,000 miles away, the man with the built-in snarl had been turning away reporters' questions with a soft "No comment!" To Mother Brooklyn, that attitude became Durocher like a hole in the head...
...just such tests. At 17, when her widow-mother could not afford tuition at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Gillian won a scholarship, later got a prize for "grace and charm of speech and movement." At 19, after a swing through the provinces as a speechless Shakespearean lady-in-waiting, she toured the Near East with an E.N.S.A. (Britain's U.S.O.) girl show. Last spring, she got her big break in television...