Word: temperedness
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Teleknight? If he keeps it up, Richard Dimbleby may well become what many British show people hope he will be: the first knight of television. He has lent his faultless, icky-wicket comments to nearly every royal occasion since World War II, including the funeral of King George VI, the...
¶ Terrible-tempered Bette Davis, 52, charged her fourth husband, dour Actor Gary Merrill, 44, with extreme cruelty, asked for alimony, will have a new co-star when she takes The World of Carl Sandburg to Broadway in September.
Someone once asked Harold Ross, founder, editor, and professionally terrible-tempered boss of The New Yorker, what would become of the magazine after his death. "It will go its own goddam way, I guess," he replied. Ross was not quite right. Last week, nine years after his death from cancer...
On the bright side was a McGraw-Hill survey taken last month, after many businessmen had tempered their overly optimistic view of 1960. It still showed that capital outlays will rise 16% this year to a record $37.9 billion. This was 6% more than outlay plans made last fall, indicating...
But to Huxley, the issues of science and religion were not nearly so clear as they are taken to be by some of his latter-day admirers, and his own high wire between faith and honest doubt sometimes trembled under him. He became bad-tempered every time his devoted Australian...