Word: warmest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...near as I can tell, we averaged between 25 and 40 Congressmen and about five Senators a night." Among Billy's greatest supporters were Tennessee's Percy Priest and Missouri's O. K. Armstrong, who ushered at meetings, New Hampshire's Senator Tobey ("the warmest-hearted friend I had"), and Senator Hoey and the rest of the representatives from Billy's home state of North Carolina. Vice President Alben Barkley told Billy admiringly: "You're certainly rockin' the old Capitol...
...could read this love story without a pang of recognition, a momentary enlargement of the heart. But when, in the last 50 pages, the key changes from the familiar minor to an unfamiliar major-from the unmaking of a mistress to the making of a saint-even the warmest reader may feel his conviction cooling. For the machinery from which the rescuing God emerges is less the novelist's than the churchman...
...Director Stevens, all three of the picture's stars do the best acting of their careers. In the pivotal role, Actor Clift's sensitive, natural performance gives the film a solid core of conviction. Actress Taylor plays with a tenderness and intensity that may surprise even her warmest fans. In a film of less uniform excellence, Shelley Winters' mousy factory girl would completely steal the show. Shy, petulant, or shrilly nagging by turns, she makes the most of her unconventional role and of the movie's boldest scene, when she gropes, on a choked-up brink...
Things were looking up last week for West Point's 90 dismissed cadets. Following Cardinal Spellman's lead (TIME, Aug. 27), offering them sanctuary in three New York Catholic colleges, other colleges extended the hand of fellowship. The warmest welcome came from the Point's old football enemy Notre Dame, where an "anonymous benefactor" announced that he was ready to pay the way of any or all of them through college-provided that "they meet Notre Dame's standards . . . that they need such help, and that these young men will not participate in any form...
...warmest and liveliest of them had been written with Jean Armour and her unborn baby in mind (the baby turned out to be twins...