Word: monstering
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While the principal contenders minced their tongues-Winthrop Rockefeller in his Arkansas mountaintop estate, and Barbara ("Bobo") Rockefeller in her Park Avenue apartment-word seeped out that a monster cash settlement was in the works as the first step to their divorce. The reported haul for Bobo and five-year-old Winthrop Paul: $5,500,000, mainly in trust funds and securities, plus $70,000-a-year alimony...
...small" with learning, the public schools have as yet failed to interest a great stratum of intelligent, but recalcitrant or lazy boys & girls. In what might be termed the era of the slob, young worshipers of the'television comic, the bookie and the comic-book monster can slip off into easy "general" courses and finish their school years with their minds practically ungrooved by thought...
...good monster picture, as any moviemaker knows, is worth its weight in ghouls. Bent on scaring the money as well as the daylights out of the customers, Hollywood is currently preparing the biggest assortment of horror pictures since the Frankenstein days...
Victor Mature, as the Greek slave Demetrius, is believable in a role similar to many he has played before. Jay Robinson, however, is scarcely plausible as a crotchety and petulant Caligula. While many have thought this emperor a monster, Robinson makes him a caricature of a contemporary egghead...
...eldest son, Lieut. General Chiang Ching-kuo (who presented him with a Formosan edition of his book, Crusade in Europe). He also got a 7 ft., 200-lb. pop-eyed halibut from Representative Thor Tollefson of Washington State. "Gee whiz," said the President when he met the monster fish on a porch bordering the Rose Garden, "I've never seen such a big fish...