Word: tyro
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...short, it should be no trade for a tyro, even an attractive girl of 26 who happened to wind up controlling one of the world's largest privately owned fleets. So how is Christina Onassis doing in her first job? At the very least, the willful and somewhat impetuous only surviving child of the great Golden Greek, Aristotle Onassis, who died in March 1975, has given the shipping world some surprises. At first, the closely knit Greek shipping fraternity expected her to steer clear of the business altogether. Then, when she asserted her rights as beneficiary...
...have had to go through, with much more courage than I would have had without her." The First Lady, 57, was having her first reunion with her former mentor in more than three decades. Back in the late 1930s, Mrs. Ford was Betty Bloomer from Grand Rapids, a tyro member of the Graham entourage. After watching a brief rehearsal at the Graham school in Manhattan, Betty gave Martha a $125 check for a ticket to a benefit performance this week on behalf of her company. "The dance, or her memory of it, has kept her beautiful," observed the instructor...
Professionals derisively label the tyro smugglers "mules," but the amateurs could not care less: the potential profits are sizable-though not as big as the risks. One successful job can earn a mule $2,000 or $3,000. A junior high school teacher and his wife had joined a coke mule team for $5,000-a down payment, they hoped, on a farm...
...Harry Callahan has been criticized for taking the law into his own hands in his first movie. So in gun-toting tyro John Milius's Magnum Force screenplay, Harry is a law abiding liberal--at least in comparison to a uniformed squad of vigilantes, acting under orders of a San Francisco police commissioner. They enjoy killing everyone who is in cahoots with criminals, including innocent party girls. Harry, who still loves his Magnum 44 with the passion Clint Eastwood usually reserves for faithful animals, refuses to go along with them. "Nothing's wrong with shooting as long as the right...
...tapped his way from Omaha to Hollywood has been choreographed in Starring Fred Astaire (Dodd, Mead & Co.). Making his theatrical debut as Roxane, Fred, 6, was the foil for Sister Adele's Cyrano de Bergerac in a junior production at their first dancing school in Manhattan. The tyro terpsichores are also glimpsed performing a bride-and-groom routine atop a prop wedding cake, with an incipiently suave Fred already puttin' on his white tie, brushin' off his top hat, dancin' in his tails...