Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...1930s and 1940s, Rufus Stanley ("The Coach") Woodward of the New York Herald Tribune, one of the burliest (230 Lbs.) sports writers and editors in the business, won a reputation as one of the best. When not engaged in playful mayhem-one favorite game of his was to sit across the table from some Spartan friend, trading shin kicks and guzzling highballs to numb the pain-he was busy beefing up the Trib's sports section, with a canny eye for talent. It was Coach Woodward who hired Sports Columnist Red Smith away from the Philadelphia Record...
Evil Days. When it was called Massey-Harris, the firm captured a major, market in the late 1930s by coming out with the first self-propelled combine, began manufacturing tractors abroad after World War II, just in time to cash in on rising worldwide demand. But by 1956, poor management, complacency and half-hearted selling had put it far behind competitors. As sales fell, inventories rose so high that it just about ran out of cash...
Requiem for a Nun is no requiem, and its "nun" is a 17th century word for whore. It was adapted by Novelist William Faulkner from his 1951 sequel to his 1930s shocker, Sanctuary. The story is a further look at Temple Drake (Ruth Ford), the Sanctuary college girl who landed in a Memphis brothel-and loved it. In Requiem, Temple has become a guilt-ridden, respectable wife, grappling for salvation. Boston critics agreed that it promised spiritual significance, but found it dramatically static. The Catholic Pilot's George E. Ryan commended it for "daring to grapple with the question...
During the 1930s and '40s, Eaton was busy parlaying what he salvaged from the Depression into a second fortune even bigger than the first. With the financial help of RFC, Eaton diverted an Ontario river and drained a lake to get his huge Steep Rock iron-ore mine working, went back into steel by forming Portsmouth Steel Corp. with holdings in Detroit Steel and Cleveland-Cliffs Iron, helped that other great RFC beneficiary, Henry J. Kaiser, bankroll his ill-fated auto venture. Then, at a critical moment, Eaton backed out of a deal to underwrite $11.7 million worth...
...Seven Deadly Sins is a period piece -the last collaboration (1933) between Refugee Berliners Weill and Brecht. The first went on to compose hit Broadway musicals, the other to be a literary showpiece for Communist Germany. Both are now dead. Their 1930s' cynicism, which is actually full of sentimentality and humor, survives as a work of satirical art that neither matched again...