Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME, reporting the news of an unusual trial, tried to make it plain that Actress Bankhead was able to rise above the dull limitations of the law, and dominate the scene with a characteristically dramatic performance. Miss Bankhead apparently mistook TIME'S awed applause for a Bronx cheer...
...helicopter, tucked his brown briefcase under his arm and strode purposefully toward the conference tents. He was Rear Admiral Ruthven Libby, commander of U.S. Cruiser Division 3, who has been detached for temporary duty as a U.N. delegate to the truce conference. The admiral wore a plain Navy overcoat without stripes or shoulder boards; only his gold-braided cap marked him as a naval officer. Said a British newsman who was watching the scene: "If you switched that cap of Libby's for a Homburg, he'd look like any banker or solicitor arriving...
...Hoover ("The Lone Ranger is one of the greatest forces for juvenile good in the country"), and Bernard Baruch ("The same thrill I got as a boy reading Oliver Optic and Horatio Alger"). Creator Trendle offers his own recipe for the show's long life: "It is just plain, good, healthy American entertainment which will not offend anyone, because there is just nothing in it to criticize...
...lives, Broker Ritter develops a motherly interest in flighty Model Jeanne Grain, decides to match her on the sly (and at no charge) with another acquaintance, X-ray Technician Scott Brady. Each of the pair misconstrues the other's motives, andThelma's as well. What should be plain to all is that Ingenue Grain needs an acting refresher course and able Comedienne Ritter deserves a better script...
...organizations. On a typical night, about 250 people will come to St. Philip's parish house for one activity or another-choir rehearsals, meetings of the church credit union (which lends money at low interest to parishioners), basketball (the church has seven teams this year), dancing, or just plain getting together...