Word: eyeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Enchanted Evening. The President's embarrassments prompted many newsmen to eye him with more than usual beadiness when he arrived at the National Press Club with Margaret to attend the club's annual father-daughter dinner. But both Harry Truman and his daughter seemed more relaxed and carefree than usual. The President broke one of his self-imposed rules and autographed scores of menus for girls who crowded around his table. He announced that he had spent a pleasant evening and added: "And I haven't had many good ones in a long time...
...Hanley to give him a state job in case he failed to win a seat in the U.S. Senate. The "Hanley Letter," in which Joe discussed the deal and his own big debts, was the sensation of the campaign. Last week, Defeated Candidate Joe Hanley, who has lost one eye and is having trouble with the other, got his consolation prize: a $16,000-a-year job as special counsel to the New York State Division of Veterans Affairs...
...Washington, Rear Admiral Arthur C. Davis, Staff Director for the Joint Chiefs, was back on the job after recovering from an acute eye infection. "There I was-unable to use my eyes," he said. "I just listened to the radio all day. Soap operas! I never heard one before . . . What are we doing? We are raising a generation of morons. My God, I didn't realize what sad shape the United States of America...
With Oliver Smith sets, Miles White costumes and some superior showgirls, Bless You All is sleek and satiny to the eye. But if that adds to the charm, it accentuates the mediocrity: it denies Bless You All the licensed bonhomie and sloppiness of an intimate revue. Even Negro Singer Pearl Bailey's enormous natural charm is put in double jeopardy by her wearing a flossy evening dress while struggling with flat material...
...will come, thinks the CAA, when "explosive decompression" must be faced squarely. Jet airliners will have to fly at 40,000 ft. to economize fuel. The best way to make them decompression-proof, think some CAA men, would be to build cabins with no windows at all. A television eye in the plane's nose could show the passengers the country passing below-or movies could amuse them...