Word: tumbler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...where a memorial service was held for one of the few who ever beat Hollywood at its own game of all-cards-wild. Winning affection with a snarl, ever brushing off moviedom's hordes of phonies with the back of one hand, in the other eternally clutching a tumbler of Scotch, Bogart had won wide respect by managing, on screen or off, to be perversely ingratiating Humphrey Bogart. With Bogie's ashes in an urn was placed a tiny gold whistle, a memento of his first meeting 13 years ago with his widow, Cinemactress Lauren Bacall. The whistle...
...folksy monster of a television star. Fuller is presented as a platinum-plated s.o.b., the kind of man who would not only sell his grandmother but, in the end, not deliver her. In his programs he mixes corny piety with dirty jokes, drinks raw gin from a water tumbler while broadcasting. Like an alcoholic stashing away bottles in convenient places, Fuller stashes away girls in convenient apartments. He once hired a psychologist to find out what kind of music has the most relaxing effect on women and put together several "Seduction Suites," consisting of six or eight records each...
...began to cross-examine Stevens, Jenkins' tone grew harsher, he clapped his hands to emphasize his words, he stabbed at the table with his fingers. Bob Stevens stood before the onslaught without flinching, but his laugh grew a bit hollow, he frequently sipped water from a tumbler on the witness table...
...arrived at the Woodmont Rod & Gun Club, where they were to spend the night and where a TIME courier was waiting to take Bookman's copy to the nearest telegraph office. This done, Bookman relaxed and followed a home-remedy suggestion to ease aching muscles: he drank a tumbler of heavy saltwater solution. The next night, by the time he had bedded down under a pine tree, the muscles felt fine. After one more day, Bookman reluctantly left the hiking party in time to reach his office for Wednesday morning story conference...
Then it was Tumbler Browning's turn to draw the cheers. Browning, who has caused a storm of controversy in track and field circles by his trick high jump (TIME, Jan. 25), went through his now-famous tumbling approach routine that lifts him up and over a high-jump bar higher than the world record. He first cleared the rod at 6 ft. 8 in., then somersaulted over at 7 ft., half an inch over the record. As a topper, Browning cleared 7 ft. 2 in., to resounding roars from the crowd. Browning's coach, Charlie Pond, growlingly...