Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nothing better than hurl himself from the tower to show his scorn for humanity. Despite numerous old Hollywood traditions, Radek does not jump, thereby supplying one of the film's pleasantest surprises. He comes breathlessly close, however, in a series of amazing shots that will make you wonder whether or not Tone and Meredith actually did clamber all over this maze of girders. How Maigret bloodlessly outwits Radek proves a vastly satisfying way of rounding out these two-hours of tense action...
...wonder where I'm gonna...
...Wonder Boy. What had caused the jet-propelled wonder boy of U.S. selling and Lever Bros, to fall out? Certainly Luckman had made many enemies. He had ruthlessly cleaned house when he became president in 1946; he shook things up again last fall when, in moving the headquarters to New York (TIME, Oct. 17), he left several hundred Lever employees behind. Furthermore, in London's dignified Unilever House, Luckman's genius for self-promotion had not gone down well. But Unilever had seemingly been more than willing to overlook all that as long as Lever Bros.' profits...
...spot on WMCA or WHN and want to go home for dinner and the boss would say, 'Sammy, run over to WPCH like a good boy and knock out a couple of songs.' I'd go through blizzards with a sandwich in one hand. No wonder I wound up with double pneumonia every year. Ya know," he reminisces, "George Gershwin was also a song plugger in those days. But to be perfectly honest, he didn't go through as much as I did. He couldn't sing like...
California rain slanted down on Santa Anita's water-logged racing strip; a light earthquake shook the track between the second and third races. It hardly seemed an ideal day for a comeback. Nonetheless, Calumet Farm sent Citation, the wonder horse, wading to the post for his first race in 13 months. Lest anybody accuse him of taking unnecessary risks with the great horse, Trainer Horace A. ("Jimmy") Jones explained that his decision had been based on careful calculations. Said Jimmy: "I decided the horse was mentally ready as well as physically. When a horse is ready, he should...