Word: bag
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...game was in the bag for only a short time, however, the Bruins' quarterback John Erickson, with one eye on the clock, took to the air after the Crimson kickoff. Desparately going for the long one on the Crimson 40- yard line, Erickson hit halfback Tom Draper on third down, and Draper ran the remaining distance for the backbreaking TD. Draper ran for the two extra points, upping the score...
...beans for hopscotch. So he offers the poor silly girl a theoretical part in a hypothetical show and, taking no chances on her old man, offers her a walk in church besides. Never mind he's twice her age. Never mind poor Phoebe (Brenda de Banzie), the old bag he's been married to for 20 years. And so on and on till Archie, having passed a number of bum checks, is about to be hauled off to the choky. "Oh, well," he smirks, "I'm sure to meet some people I know...
...dilemmas that need to be solved rather than shot, opens its first regular season this week (after four shows last spring) with Rex Harrison and Tammy Grimes in a superb, spoofily whimsical adaptation by Drama Critic Walter Kerr of Richard Marsh's The Datchet Diamonds. Exchanging his Gladstone bag by error with another that contains some ?36,000 worth of stolen gems, Rex manages to preserve his fortune, restore the diamonds, fall in love with Tammy and simultaneously avoid being done in by the woggiest group of thugs west of Conrad's Victory...
...World of Carl Sandburg, if not everybody's world, has long been a popular one. Over the years Sandburg, who was first a poet of the pioneering Midwest school, has sifted down into a people's poet, a patriarch with a song bag on his shoulder and a new song on his lips. He can be pithy or philosophic, can speak from the heart while poking the funny bone, and speak tenderly of babies and bad women and sad men, and speak up for dreams, and speak out against war, and be often crackerbarrel and occasionally caustic. America...
...Three Sisters, O'Neill's The Great God Brown, Henry James's The Pupil, and Anouilh's Ring Around the Moon. After meeting its legally required minimum of 55% Canadian-originated fare, the publicly owned network will fill in with a mixed bag of U.S. imports including Have Gun, Will Travel, Dennis the Menace, Danny Thomas, Red Skelton, Perry Como, Tennessee Ernie Ford, and Ed Sullivan. CBC will get some of these shows before U.S. networks, to help fight U.S. competition for the more than half of Canadian sets within range of U.S. stations...