Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cover story on August Anheuser Busch Jr., he had a chance to watch the Cards' workout from the bench, courtesy of Owner Busch. While there, a front-office man told him that the Cards had in their files an old scout report on him. It said: fast but wild; watch. Frank finished college at the University of Nevada ('41), worked as a reporter for the United Press, and joined the Marines to fight in World...
...eight. His decision? O'Hanlon admitted that "on one side is the egotism of a scholar; on the other side is the conservatism of a father." Then he heaved a sigh and added. "I have decided to take the $16,000." The studio audience exploded into wild applause. O'Hanlon's wife beamed. Soon after, O'Hanlon left the studio, wife on his arm, and a $16,000 certified check in hand...
...school, he spent most of his time thinking about sex and losing himself in wild fantasies in which he sometimes played several sexual roles. As he grew into adolescence, he began to despise his father, a reaction his mother unwittingly encouraged by making his father look ridiculous. She, meanwhile, intensified her masculine role. Every morning, she wrestled with Jim to get him out of bed; since she won every wrestling match, Jim keenly felt that his was the passive role...
...popular TV fare, is so evident that CBS is throwing it out wholesale. CBS is canceling 16 new half-hour shows. Situation Comedy Writer Lou Derman gave the reason in last week's trade sheet Variety: "We've allowed our shows to become unbearably dull, repetitious, predictable, wild and sloppy. We've ignored a public that's sick and tired of watching, story in and story out, about Bringing the Boss Home to Dinner; and Forgetting the Wife's Birthday; and Getting Into This Disguise So's Husband Won't Recognize...
...Wild Melodrama . . ." As the testimony rambled on, industry spokesmen conjured up several novel defenses of their wares. Columbia's Jerry Wald asserted the right of U.S. moviemakers, unlike that of Soviet producers, to criticize their country's seamy side; Motion Picture Industry Councilman Lou Greenspan fell back on the Bible, where "murder, adultery, even incest are described." One movie adman piously explained, when Kefauver cited an advertisement showing two scantily clothed lovers grappling suggestively, that it could have been worse: "In the original [drawing] submitted to us they were clad only in beads. We at least put pants...