Word: stoutness
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...elephants, petulant rhinos, man-eating lions and fiendish crocodiles with an eye for a pretty girl-in this instance, Janet Leigh. In fact, most of the denizens have their eye on Janet, possibly because she romps invitingly about the camp in negligee and paddles nude in jungle pools. Only stout Victor remains impervious while he tracks down the Mau Mau who murdered his family. Once revenge is taken care of, however, he melts pliantly into Janet's arms. And so-there they can be left as the crimson sun sinks slowly into the green hush of the jungle...
Life with Mother. In Columbus, Ohio, Joe Stout asked the court for a restraining order commanding his mother-in-law "to desist from calling, talking to, associating with or contacting" his wife Dorothy, filed a $50,000 damage suit against her, charging that she exerted "a hypnotic influence and control over her daughter, sometimes termed 'brainwashing...
...Bulganin, Khrushchev and Marshal Zhukov chatted with U.S. Ambassador "Chip" Bohlen. Khrushchev ribbed Zhukov for helping himself "as though you haven't eaten for a day." Said Bohlen: "But the marshal is much thinner, now that he's lost 1,200,000 troops." A ripple of stout laughter floated across the room...
...after day, for a near-world-record black marlin (TIME, April 23) in one of that fish's favorite haunts, the famed Cabo Blanco deep-sea hunting ground. Ashore in the port of Talara, after a wearying day's cruise, "Papa" Hemingway not only looked like a stout version of his own Old Man; he also had a dejected air, as if sharks had robbed him of his prize marlin. Actually, his party had bagged only one fish, half the size of the giant he was after...
There was less reticence in the satellite states, where the purge of Jewish Communists has been taken up by party newspapers, particularly in Poland. But the "Zionist conspiracy" still found a stout supporter in Czechoslovakia's Communist Premier Viliam Siroky, who admitted last week that "certain manifestations of antiSemitism" had been wrongfully introduced into the trial of Rudolf Slansky and 13 other Czech Communist leaders in 1952. He added that there was a difference between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism, one of the "crimes" Slansky had been charged with and for which, said Siroky, he had been justly executed...