Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clifford Odets knows where he is going -to NBC as a television writer. He was the dramatic laureate of the 1930s, when his Waiting for Lefty and Awake and Sing gave promise of a bright new American theater of protest. For 27 years, he has been a richly rewarded scriptwriter and adapter in Hollywood, and during the same period he has turned out several relatively bland plays-including Golden Boy-for Broadway...
...many a casual concert goer, the name Claude Debussy suggests a moody, vaporous music of almost monotonous sweetness and grace. Anybody who ever sat down to a piano lesson has tinkled through Clair de Lune, and since the great Toscanini performances of the 1930s, it has been almost impossible to get through a concert season without at least one rendering of that virtuoso war horse La Mer. But there is another view of Debussy-one that audiences are being reminded of more and more often in the centennial year of his birth. Debussy was in fact, a revolutionary...
Smith's show was singularly patchy and misshapen, and might have passed unnoticed save for the identity of one of the panelists*: Alger Hiss, who slipped State Department secrets to a Communist spy ring in the 1930s and was later sent to prison for perjury. Nixon, as a tiery young Congressman on the House Un-American Activities Committee, helped bring the Hiss case to light. On the air, Hiss, now a printing salesman, all but accused Nixon of framing him: "He was less interested in developing the facts objectively than in seeking ways of making a preconceived plan appear...
Defying the Experts. Cliff Garrett is a volatile, heavy-handed manager who likes to say that he built his company "on thin air." After aeronautic experts told him in the 1930s that men could never fly in the rarefied atmosphere above 12,000 ft., he profitably proved that they could-in his pressurized cabins. He also defied the medical experts who told him after a stroke three years ago that he would never walk again. Today he tramps truculently over his 20-acre plant, snapping orders and picking at details...
...flattened five Southern juggernauts, from Texas to Ole Miss, in six days, holding all of them scoreless. But it lost 44 consecutive Southeastern Conference games in the 1930s, and quit subsidized football...