Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hostesses who play the old Washington society game of inviting mutual enemies to the same party seldom stir up anything more exciting than pointed remarks and a few hard looks. But Miss Louise Tinsley Steinman, 27, daughter of Publisher J. Hale Steinman of Lancaster, Pa., got sensational results in the game last week. She asked both Columnist Drew Pearson and his mortal enemy Senator Joe McCarthy to a little dinner she was giving at the fashionable Sulgrave Club...
...Yorker cartoons about the hole in its cover, the chopped-up pages and accordion inserts that unfold for a foot or more. But Flair's stories on such things as Americans in Paris, fox hunting, and how the Duchess of Windsor decorates her house failed to Stir up the same interest among readers or advertisers. Publisher Gardner (Look, Quick) Cowles and his wife, Flair Editor Fleur Cowles, who had dreamed two months ago of boosting their circulation guarantee from 200,000 to 250,000, got the realities of the situation as the real figures came in. In October...
...investigation of the Brink's case itself seems to be running in circles. Only last week it was reported that local officials were very willing to talk about the case, hoping that publicity would stir up new leads. But large, ruddy police captain francis M. Tiernan leans back in his chair and says, "Of course we never talk about a crime under investigation. That's asinine...
Though Cagney settles down at the Academy as comfortably as if he were in stir, it takes some feverish scripting to get him there. A down-at-heel Broadway genius, he is hired by a producer ostensibly to stage the cadet corps' annual show, actually to lure the producer's singing nephew (Gordon MacRae) from an Army career to show business. Brass-baiting ex-G.I. Cagney rags the cadets so energetically that the corps makes him a plebe for a while to keep him on a leash-and, of course, to teach him to love West Point...
Cheers & Tuts. For years the theories of the Cambridge men were published piecemeal in the solemn little papers through which cosmologists communicate. They made very little stir. For one thing, English universities shy away from publicity, and Hoyle and Lyttleton were young...