Word: tough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a surprised pause the 150 newsmen, used to having celebrities duck tough questions instead of invite them, began firing from the hip. The Shah shrugged off possibilities of a revolution ("the line adopted by Moscow radio"). But he frankly admitted that some tribal chiefs opposed him, although he had recently banned New York Timesman Sam Pope Brewer from Iran for saying as much. Asked about his blacklist of correspondents, the Shah said, "I wonder if even Mr. Sam Pope Brewer could not return to Iran...
Small, spry, tough, intense, Kiesler got few commissions for his missionary work and asked for no favors. His credo, stated in the College Art Journal: "The artist must learn only one thing in order to be creative: not to resist himself, but to resist without exception every human, technical, social, economical factor that prevents him from being himself." Recently, a former student of Kiesler, Armand Bartos, asked him to become a partner while remaining strictly Kiesler. Their collaboration resulted first in Manhattan's strange and elegant World House Galleries (TIME, Feb. 4, 1957). Now ground is being broken...
Sound Leads to Science. Life in the oilfields was tough. Following each discovery came hangers-on and prostitutes, phony stock promoters, poker sharps, and battling roughnecks. In Bowlegs, Okla. "a tough braggart was cut to ribbons in a knife fight. Instead of seeking a doctor he drunkenly toured the town pointing to the blood pouring from his wounds. Still boasting of his toughness, he fell dead...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Out of the Dust, a tough story about the Old West by the late Lynn (Green Grow the Lilacs) Riggs, gives Charles Bickford, Uta Hagen and Wayne Morris a workout in jealousy, greed and patricide...
...record and still considers its season a bit of a disappointment, chances are that one of those losses was to Yale. This was the case with this spring's varsity tennis team, which found the Elis, led by Davis Cup nominee Donald Dell, just a little too tough to handle...