Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pair dodged surreptitiously all over Manhattan? Judy explained that Gubichev was afraid that his wife had hired detectives to follow them. He had also "petrified" her by muttering that the NKVD might be after him. Judy had thought the whole business was very silly -particularly sitting on different seats in an all-but-empty subway car. She had never dreamed that the car behind was stacked with FBI agents...
...time she was 19, Ruth Steinhagen, in her craving for excitement, had left a whole generation of mere bobby-soxers far behind. She found life inexpressibly boring. She was a $37.50-a-week insurance-company typist who wanted to be a model, but thought she was too "nervous." Besides, while she was almost six feet tall, she was skinny, and her dark, curling hair framed only a flat face with a big nose...
Most listeners thought they knew the singing-the pillow-soft pianissimos, the warm and velvety power even at full voice-even though at first some did not recognize the singer. In five months, tiny (4 ft. 8½ in.), once-tubby (201 lbs.) Dorothy Maynor had lost 72 pounds by rigorous dieting, slimmed down to a more curvaceous 129. But last week, as the first guest soloist on the NBC Symphony's new U.S. Steel-sponsored Summer Concert series, the little Negro soprano proved that great singing does not necessarily come by the pound...
Most hard-boiled boxing fans thought I.B.C. deserved to lose a lot more than that for allowing the likes of La Motta to have a shot at the title. As recently as February, roundheeled Jake had been soundly thrashed in Montreal by a Frenchman named Laurent Dauthuille. A cloud of suspicion still hung over La Motta's fight with Philadelphia's Billy Fox two years ago, which the referee stopped in the fourth because of Jake's feeble performance. About all last week's fight proved was that Cerdan could not whip La Motta with...
Were the purgers and cleansers going too far? Some Americans thought...