Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plays of stature amid a morass of mediocrity. As a matter of fact, Mr. Capp, it was only after you disassociated yourself from Falk that he offered us in 1957 a season0of nothing but good, plays: Jonson's Volpone, Anouilh's Thieves' Carnival, Fry's Venus Observed, Shaw's Back to Methuselah, Giraudoux's The Madwoman of Chaillot, and Graham Greene's The Potting Shed. He lost money; and last summer he lowered the quality of his choices somewhat, and still lost. So he threw in the towel...
...Robbery and Theft Division Chief Fernando Ribeiro: "He was a broken man, broken, broken, broken." Debonairly dressed, but with sweaty brow and tremulous lips, Birrell cried: "I don't care how much it costs; I'm going to beat the rap. I'm ready to go back to the U.S. and face trial. I've got nothing to worry about. It's just a complicated business problem. People just don't understand anything about high finance...
...week's end Assistant New York District Attorney James V. Hallisey flew to Rio to test whether Lowell Birrell would come back willingly to stand trial. If Birrell has a change of heart, the Brazilian government, despite the lack of an extradition treaty with the U.S., can probably find ample cause to put him on a New York-bound plane...
...events that the Peking Daily Worker complained that " 'more' and 'quick' are stressed, but 'good' and 'economical' are ignored" in Chinese industry, even suggested that "individually run enterprises" might be set up side-by-side with state enterprises. To woo back disillusioned businessmen, the Red Bank of China has taken the unprecedented step of accepting claims by traders seeking damages for substandard exports. So far, the Bank has seen fit to rule in the trader's favor only a few times...
Other shows revert to reruns; "Smiley's" once-a-week vaudeville simply calls back some of its most interesting stars. This week: Sicknik Comedian Shelley Berman, Opera Star Roberta Peters, Ventriloquist Rickie Layne...