Word: tantruming
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Tears of Gratitude. Mario likes the grand gesture, whether he is in a temper tantrum or a mood of warmhearted generosity. When he learned that Louis B. Mayer, cofounder and chief of the M-G-M lot, seemed to be on his way out, Lanza remembered that Mayer had fought an almost lone battle to get The Great Caruso made. He telephoned Mayer to express concern and ask whether he could help the man long ranked as Hollywood's No. 1 executive. Mayer-as Lanza recalls the incident-wept tears of gratitude...
DANGER ZONES Tantrum at Singapore U.S., British and French military men met last week for the first time to discuss a common strategy for defending Southeast Asia against the Red guerrillas in Indo-China and Malaya. The doings of the four-day session in Singapore were top secret; a communiqué said only that the talks "promise well for the future." Actually, the conference turned into a covert struggle between the French and British for U.S. support and supplies...
Like many an only child, Margaret could produce a serviceable tantrum herself if the occasion warranted. Once when her parents were about to go visiting, leaving her behind, Margaret flung herself into a crying fit. Harry and Bess were firm, firmly departed. "As soon as they were out of sight," says Margaret, "I promptly turned off the weeps." Generally, her parents were more amenable. "I never bawled out Margaret but once in my life," the President confesses, without specifying the cause...
...orphan (Margaret O'Brien) goes to live with her rich, half-mad uncle (Herbert Marshall). An officious, adder-tongued little minx who detests practically everyone she meets, Margaret soon meets her match. Her crippled cousin (Dean Stockwell) turns out to be the same sort of brat. In the tantrum match that follows, the two youngsters give themselves (and the audience) a crashing good time yowling, screeching and smashing what appears to be a gross of studio crockery...
...policymakers, the end came as ignominiously as fof China's Generalissimo. Wearily, Ambassador Stuart cabled Washington: "I have more than ever a sense of frustration ... I feel impotent to accomplish anything." Desperately he cabled for specific instructions to meet the shattering of Chinese resistance. In a tantrum born of its own indecision, Washington brushed off its ambassador's "hypothetical" inquiries: "It is not in the national interest to vouchsafe cut and dried answers to these over-simplified questions...