Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little to be humble about. As co-author of such comedy classics as The Man Who Came to Dinner and You Can't Take It with You, as librettist of Lady in the Dark and director of My Fair Lady, he will hold top billing in the American popular theater for a long time to come. But he has not had a play of his own on Broadway since the earnest, charming Climate of Eden in 1952. (There were those who loved it, but it flopped.) To get over that humiliation, Playwright Hart began to jot down his recollections...
David Smith, 53, is the best of the living "ironmongers." His raw, openwork constructions of iron, silver and stainless steel stem from Spanish ironwork by way of Gonzalez, but they have a peculiarly American urgency and, so to speak, a questioning emptiness. Smith is the idol of young American sculptor-welders, who find that they can follow his lead on a large scale without too great expense (a big cast-bronze monument may cost $50,000 to erect; a welded steel one as little as $500). Smith stays more inventive than any of his imitators...
SHIP-CONSTRUCTION BONDS guaranteed by U.S. will be marketed by American President Lines to aid in building two 13,250 D.W.T. cargo ships. First of its type, the $14.4 million offering is expected to lead way for $1 billion in new maritime bonds...
NONSTOP JET FLIGHTS to Europe on scheduled basis will be started by Pan American in mid-October and TWA in November, with new, intercontinental Boeing 707s...
...strongest warning yet, the President specifically urged the two sides to compromise their differences. The American people, said the President, have a right to expect a "measuring up" to joint responsibility by union and management, since a "reasonable basis for a settlement" exists. Wrote the President: "The steelworkers and the steel companies must find that way expeditiously...