Word: utters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Mabel Dodge Sterne Luhan, 83, who won an eccentric's reputation as a patroness of the great, the good, and the utter frauds in arts and letters, drawing them all to her pre-World War I salons in Florence and New York, in turn becoming involved in three tormented marriages, countless love affairs, desperate attempts at psychoanalysis, and a dozen mystical philosophies; after a long illness; in Taos, N. Mex. Once described as a "species of headhunter" by Malcolm Cowley, she brought the likes of Lincoln Steffens, John Reed, Isadora Duncan, Gertrude Stein and Walter Lippmann together...
...Brooklyn's Democratic Representative Emanuel Celler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and Cooper's sponsor. Invited to testify, Celler praised Cooper's record and declared: "Any man whose blood does not at times grow hot at the sight of evil or in the presence of utter incompetence isn't worth a pinch of snuff...
...last third of the film, Hudson is driven to the babbling brink of insanity by a witch doctor in an isolated jungle outpost, and his once-scoffing lips utter a prayer. At this point, Rock Hudson abruptly begins to look less like Gary Grant and more like Dostoevsky. Neither disguise helps him to make any acting distinction between an encounter with God and a bout with the malarial mosquito...
...Bread. Kerr's tremendous influence in the Senate is the sum of many factors, not the least of which is his utter self-confidence. This in turn is nourished by the fact that he is the wealthiest man in the Senate. An oilman (Kerr-McGee Oil Industries, Inc.), he has a personal fortune of more than $35 million and owns or controls, through Kerr-McGee, about 25% of all known uranium reserves...
Probably the biggest surprise of the young season, has been the utter collapse of the Milwaukee Braves. In a sense, it should have been foreseen. Spahn and Burdette are awesome now in name only; Henry Aaron has not been hitting in the clutch, and Eddie Mathews has been on and off the bench. The fans, who once turned out in record numbers, have been staying away from County Stadium." They hate Lou Perini, who has traded away many good ballplayers, such as Frank Thomas. Thomas is hitting .335 with 13 homers for the heroic Mets. The Braves, who sorely need...