Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Challenge, popped up on What's My Line?, The Last Word, and six memorable sessions of the Jack Paar Show. Last week, in his second Omnibus show, he won hosannas for directing and starring in a televersion of his own satiric tragedy, Moment of Truth, playing a Petain-like elder statesman with overtones of King Lear...
Watering the Stock. With public and Parliament clamoring for the truth, Nehru reluctantly appointed a Bombay judge to make a special inquiry. Testimony brought out that Krishnamachari's principal aide, finance secretary H. M. Patel, had ordered the corporation's officers to carry out the deal and that its direct result was to save the financial position of Promoter Mundhra. a boy-wonder financier who began as a light-bulb salesman, pyramided his holdings by fast deals and stock juggling into a $10 million empire...
...with 1957's George Washington Carver Memorial Institute Gold Award for the pontiff's "outstanding contribution to the betterment of race relations and human welfare." (1956 winner: D wight D. Eisenhower.) Said His Holiness: "It is not to our humble person this award is directed, but to truth and charity, whose defense is our mission...
...Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam of Washington. He is no more afraid of "creeping socialism." said Oxnam, than of "stumbling capitalism." Though Oxnam said he holds no brief for collective ownership, "I must face the fact that there is something radically wrong with so-called 'free enterprise.' The truth is that there are services that can be rendered more effectively by the people acting together. A few more eggheads in the automobile industry to supplant the blockheads who have designed our recent cars would be in our national interest. Who are the madmen who build cars so long they...
...seedy-looking firing squad aimed its rifles at Dagmar Godowsky. Her father, Pianist Leopold Godowsky, turned to Marie Dressier and said: "Tell me the truth. Marie, do you think Dagmar has a future in pictures?" Replied Veteran Comedienne Dressier: "Definitely." The guns went off and Dagmar, playing Mata Hari. fell to the ground. As she recalls the moment: "My fate was sealed. It was the movies...