Word: dumbness
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Beaming citizens of Carlyle, Ill. (pop. 2,700) heartily cheered Major General William F. Dean on a visit to his boyhood home town. Brushing aside the home folks' tribute to his valor, Dean spoke sharply: "Anybody who's dumb enough to get captured shouldn't be called a hero...
...mainspring of the mantrap, Lauren Bacall is the least convincing of the three. She does her work with a reptile eye and a cold, slit grin. Marilyn Monroe, on the other hand, is pert and comfortable as a not-so-dumb blonde who doesn't like to wear glasses for fear men won't make passes. Betty Grable, a performer who has always appeared to have just about as much above the eyebrows as below, carries off the show with such scenes as the one in which she arrives with her millionaire friend at his "lodge" in Maine...
Once ballet was akin to fairy tales, a simple affair of story and emotion, told through gesture, mimicry and music. By the 18th century it had become stylized, replacing most of the dumb show with elegant attitudes and virtuoso movement. In this form it was nourished and preserved by the Russians. But there is one major company which still clings to the older, simpler style: the Royal Danish Ballet. Last week the Royal Danes, making one of their rare visits outside Scandinavia, were at London's Covent Garden...
...civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God's creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy...
...years," says breezy Ann (Maisie) Sothern, hard-working star of her own CBS-TV show, Private Secretary, "and this is the toughest thing I've ever done." After Actress Sothern had made seven Maisie movies and broadcast 78 Maisie radio programs, she was so tired of the dumb-blonde character that "the very name made me frantic." .Several months ago someone handed her a TV script for Private Secretary, and Ann decided it was just right...