Word: gumption
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...Parker, 30, high fashion's highest paid ($200 an hour) mannequin, to a Washington Post reporter. "I like solid lumps of things. You can always melt them down." She also believes in marrying Actor Bradford Dillman in April, and is just waiting for him "to get up his gumption. Well he's just...
...last week: "I can't think of anything useful I can do any more, and I don't want to sit around doing nothing. So I just sleep for longer spells, hoping it will end." But one out of every ten oldsters has had enough energy and gumption-or is sufficiently rootless-to pull up stakes, sell the house, dispose of the furniture, and often strike out for a place where he can warm his thinning blood in the hot sun. Many of the less well-off have flocked to such geriatric capitals as St. Petersburg, Fla., where...
...Civil War hero, railroad builder, bad novelist in the manner of Walter Scott, and excellent knife-and gunfighter in the manner of Wild Bill Hickok, was more than a ready-made fictional hero: he was an embodiment of aristocratic tradition. As it happened, successive Falkners had successively less gumption. Novelist William, fourth in line, had in his father and grandfather suggestions of the thinning Sartoris and Compson clans-weak and neurotic aristocrats who let slip inherited wealth and inherited tradition...
...Decathlon Man Rafer Johnson (TIME cover, Aug. 29), whose gold medal in last summer's Olympic Games was won as much on gumption as talent, went the A.A.U.'s James E. Sullivan Memorial Trophy as the outstanding U.S. amateur athlete of 1960. As the world's top sports man - pro or amateur - SPORTS ILLUSTRATED tapped golf's confident Arnold Palmer (TIME cover, May 2), who staged two cliffhanging rallies to win both the Masters and U.S. Open crowns, went on to win a record $80,738 for the year...
Your article on increasing summer school activities shows that many American children have the gumption to get more out of their spare time than a case of TV eyestrain...