Word: toughs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next 20 years becoming an expert on international law. As a professor of international law and diplomacy at Columbia, he worked hard at the theory of law among nations, learned the frustrating practical side of it as assistant solicitor to the State Department, and as an aide to tough old Elihu Root at Geneva. He was assistant secretary general of the first Council session of UNRRA, played a part in the birth of U.N. at San Francisco. Last year Harry Truman made him deputy U.S. representative to the U.N.'s Little Assembly...
Money doesn't worry Louis any more than his taste in music. He leaves all that to his manager and friend-a man Louis, with a kind of plantation politeness, still calls "Mister" Glaser. Joe Glaser, a tough, smart ex-fight manager, pays Louis' income tax, looks after his insurance, protects him from lawsuits and handles all the financial details of the band, including payment of the other men. Louis has never read his contract, never questioned Glaser's plans for him. Glaser says: "I'm Louis and Louis is me. There's nothing...
...films, a dozen are already in the can and six are now shooting. The program will "challenge the gloomy prophets of defeat," said Schary, who is being privately hailed by his studio head, Louis B. Mayer, as the long-sought successor to the late Irving Thalberg. There are still "tough problems to be solved," Schary told the visiting salesmen, as they gathered for luncheon under thousands of square feet of improbably blue sky (left over from an old Esther Williams picture). But "no company fearing disaster could plan what we have planned...
...rougher, Preston winds up on the villains' or losing side. There are some handsomely photographed train wrecks, but except for Frank Faylen's lynx-eyed portrait of a killer, Whispering Smith is a conventional western in every detail. Its only novelty: Actor Ladd, familiar as a sleekly tough urban type, carrying two guns and looking pretty uncomfortable as they flap around his chaps...
...contest which the varsity will find tough is the number one match where Henry Foster will meet Wesleyan's Henri Salaun, well known in collegiate squash circles as an excellent although temperamental player...