Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Life with Luigi was broadcast before a packed audience of 12,500 in Milwaukee's Arena, which included Cy's proud parents, Mr. & Mrs. Sam Horwitz. Said Cy: "This thing's in my heart. I'm a guy who was born and lived on the wrong side of the tracks in Milwaukee. So look what I am now and what I've got. Nobody ever told me I couldn't do it. Nobody ever oppressed me. And look at the story itself-an Italian immigrant, created by a Jew and played by an Irisher...
...Last week 29-year-old Betty Hutton was a $260,000-a-year movie star on the verge of her splashiest success. She was still going strong on the momentum she had picked up on the wrong side of the tracks. Her relentless determination to get to the top had flung her from speakeasies to street-singing to bandstands, then onto Broadway and into the startled public eye as the frenzied high priestess of a nameless chaos-with-music that has been wrongly called jitterbugging...
...family moved to Detroit when she was eight, but it was still the wrong side of the tracks. "I'd do anything to escape," says Betty. "I got broody and bad. I'd dance and sing on street corners. I never did anything real wrong, but I landed in juvenile hall sometimes." At eleven she played Mae West in a school theatrical, and began doing well on amateur nights in Detroit theaters. At 14, she became a vocalist for a band of high-school boys. At 15, tired of waiting to be discovered, she packed off with some...
...Ernst, Yves Tanguy, Enrico Donati and Joán Miró. The other half were by schizophrenic patients in mental hospitals. Asked to decide which were the outpourings of patients and which the works of artists, the panel scored a perfect zero. They were right half the time, wrong the other half-or no better than they might have been if they had closed their eyes and left it strictly to the laws of chance...
...Sorry, Wrong Number. In Odessa, Texas, a woman called at the census office to be counted because she was not on speaking terms with her next door neighbor, the enumerator. In Canton, Ohio, a man phoned the census office to correct the income figure he had given when interviewed at home, explained that he did not want his wife to know exactly how much he made. In St. Louis, the census director agreed to mail out forms to three spinster sisters who feared that the neighbors would talk if a male counter entered their home...