Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...sweltering Tampico, where the shrimp boats idled while their crewmen roamed about freely ashore, the U.S. skippers huddled with their lawyers and U.S. consular officials, trying to make up their minds whether to pay the fines under protest or post bail pending an appeal and decision of their cases. The time was ripe for both countries to stop trading such words as "poacher" or "pirate" and settle on a legal definition of territorial limits...
From having made a very good joke of ballroom dancing, Grace and Paul Hartman have learned to make an even better joke of themselves. They can still execute demented fandangos. In one scene, she is a madly determined Carmen to his befuddled Don José. They are most consistently amusing as a trademarked stage couple, she babbling, he blundering, she all fizz, he all curdle. Beyond that, there is Grace's invincible likeableness...
...Smith Goes to Washington. Zealously shy and determined to cling to her privacy, Actress Arthur had ordered no more published. She also staunchly refused interviews, balked at a curtain speech, made it a point to flee from the theater (and stage-door crowds) without taking time to remove make-up or costume...
Tunesmith Merrill, 28, the son of a Philadelphia candy manufacturer, has an easy recipe for cooking up a song. Several years ago he began filling notebooks with catch phrases, slang and cliches ("Cliches make the best songs; I put down every one I can find"). Last April, with three notebooks full, he went to Veteran Songwriter Al (Mairzy Doats) Hoffman, who chose Baked a Cake as the most promising title, helped Merrill whip up the words & music in a couple of hours. The lyrics asked very little of the U.S. mind. Sample...
Nothing Sacred. As most readers sense, nothing short 'of a direct hit by an atomic bomb could make the Times go to hell overnight: its momentum as a publishing enterprise and its staff of trusted old professionals could carry it on for a long time no matter whom death took from the publisher's office. But Sulzberger is credited, even by his old pros, with being a big force in keeping the Times cruising at standard speed. He regards the Times as a "public trust" and works unceasingly to keep it that way. His wife, who began working...