Word: arthur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hard Sell. In Birmingham, arrested for throwing a garbage can through the plate-glass window of a loan company, Arthur Bostian explained: "I was trying to draw attention to Governor Patterson's fight against loan sharks...
...wound up 45 years in the Navy with a chestful of decorations and five-star fleet-admiral's rank. He said: "Let the younger fellow's take over." and Bull Halsey's officers-Forrest Sherman, Arthur Radford, Mick Carney, Arleigh Burke-did. He put in a stint for International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., launched but lost a fund-raising drive to save his old flagship Big E from the scrap heap. "Remember!" he rasped. "Scrapped ships will not rest peacefully in deep blue waters beside the gallant Lexington, Wasp, Hornet, Houston, Atlanta, and all the brave others...
Since that December evening in 1904, when Maude Adams and Gerald Du Maurier originated the roles of Peter Pan and Captain Hook, some of the greatest English-speaking actors have been charmed in taking to the piano wire or donning an iron claw, including Eva LeGallienne, Joan Greenwood, Jean Arthur, and Mary Martin in the title role; and Alastair Sim, Charles Laughton, Boris Karloff, and Cyril Ritchard as the evil pirate Captain...
...outset. Mr. Bartley (Macdonald Carey) has the family dog "put away" without so much as consulting young Arthur. The inordinate attention lavished by Mrs. Bartley (Marsha Hunt) on her daughter's approaching marriage, plus the prosaic preoccupations of these prosaic parents, drives young Arthur to a basement escape with his contemporaries, where furtive beers foam up into braggadocio, cigarettes mingle with clumsy sex experiments, and draw poker alternates with the raw pathos that gives the picture its fleeting moments of real feeling. It is only in the quiet, anxious scenes of awakening love that Director-Co-Writer Philip Dunne...
Bethlehem Steel set new records with second-quarter profits of $1.59 v. 61/ last year, first-half profits of $2.64 v. $1.13 last year. President Arthur B. Homer reported that Bethlehem's billings of $1.4 billion for the first half also touched new highs; so did production, which was running at 97% of capacity just before the steel strike. From Republic Steel Chairman Charles M. White came another record report to round out the picture: the nation's third largest steel firm ran up quarterly earnings of $2.57 a share v. 98? last year, half-year earnings...