Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sailor's Sailor. The fact that Arleigh Albert ("31-Knot") Burke is at the helm of the new Navy is no accident of seniority. Last year able, Navy-wise Secretary Thomas began looking for a replacement for retiring Admiral Robert Carney as Chief of Naval Operations. Thomas was keenly aware of the nuclear revolution and deeply concerned about the Navy's failure to grasp its full significance. Thomas wanted a man with the vision and drive required by the atom. He wanted someone who understood naval aviation. But most of all he wanted a man that the Navy...
...economic role. He would set up a sort of super-Atlantic political standing committee, where "people of stature" second only to the foreign ministers would meet regularly to thresh out such divisive issues as Cyprus. North Africa and the Middle East. He proposed the appointment of "three wise men" to study the idea...
Fella is fortunate in having music that so often sweeps all before it, for there is a good deal that needs to be swept. The small human story with the wise human moral that Sidney Howard, in They Knew What They Wanted, neatly packed into one room has been wildly scattered and in places quite submerged all over the Napa Valley countryside. For all that is folkish in Fella, something plaintively simple is missing; as there is sentiment and to spare but no pervasive current of emotion. For in excess of any proper musical's quota, Fella has been...
...Rebel. No such comment could be made about Fifteen. Fifteen is the eternal sophomore, both wise and foolish at once. He digs at his scalp, gouges pimples, toys maddeningly with the silverware at meals. His voice is often inaudible, and he seems | so frugal with his energies that parents and teachers come to the conclusion that he is lazy. He is secretive and hates anyone to intrude into his life too much. He has fantasies of violence and revenge. As much as at any time in his life, he needs patience and understanding...
Comedians Bob Hope and Jimmy Durante took turns spelling Wershow. Busy cracking wise, Hope accidentally bought the same player he had lost money on last year: Bo Wininger. "My God!" he shouted. "Don't tell me I've got him! I don't want him." But Hope had him, for $6,500. Hope did better with Dentist Gary Middlecoff, "master of the chip and middle inlay." Middlecoff brought $16,000. Durante managed to sell Ted Kroll for $10,000. ("Didja ever see this fella Kroll's legs? A regular croquet player.") Top price ($16,500) went...