Word: scorcher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though customarily the fountainhead of the sound and the fury, old (88) Architectitan Frank Lloyd Wright found himself on the receiving end of a scorcher from Leon Chatelain, president of the American Institute of Architects. Just returned from a globe-girdling trip, Architect Chatelain candidly assessed Tokyo's famed earthquake-proof Imperial Hotel, designed by Wright, and finished in 1922. The verdict: "One of the most horrible buildings I've ever been in. It is dark and dismal and looks grotesque...
Former New York Yankee Slugger Joe DiMaggio yielded to the chidings of movie columnists and made bold to pay his first visit to a movie set and watch his wife, Marilyn Monroe, in action. She was rehearsing that old Irving Berlin scorcher, Heat Wave, for a movie called No Business Like Show Business. During the usual interminable delay, DiMaggio turned to Movie Gossipist Sidney Skolsky, one of the chiders, and muttered: "I keep reading in the papers and fan magazines that I must be an odd ball . . . be cause I don't visit my wife...
...editors are disloyal to the United States and support and defend the Communist Party and C.P. figures convicted of conspiracy and espionage." While its case begins the long journey through the courts, the Post plans to run another series ("Winchell Revisited") as a sequel to its first 24-part scorcher, which started the fight (TIME, Jan. 21). Said Winchell: "A year ago when they started their series on me [the Post never thought] that their headlines would one day say, 'Post Sues Winchell.'" As soon as the Post starts its new series, Winchell has "a bank of eleven...
...Arabic word Ramadan means literally, "The Scorcher...
...Post's formula for revelation has become pat: a continuous series of wordy but provocative sketches of favorite Post whipping boys, e.g., Senator McCarthy, Walter Winchell, Westbrook Pegler. When U.S.A. Confidential began making headlines and the bestseller lists, Wechsler spotted ideal subjects for his next serial scorcher: the book's authors, the New York Mirror's editor, Jack Lait, and its nightclub columnist, Lee Mortimer, who are already defendants in twelve libel suits for their offhand reporting (TIME...