Word: bagful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rummage sale: shiny serge jacket, frayed grey vest, floppy black trousers, and square-toed brogans. One day a demented broker marched into Sage's office. In one hand he held a note demanding that Sage give him $1,200,000; in the other hand he held a bag of dynamite. Sage eased a visitor between himself and the dynamite, dashed for the exit. When the smoke cleared away, the broker was dead, the visitor was badly mangled, Sage was virtually unharmed. The visitor sued Sage, who fought the case through four court trials and never paid him a penny...
...cast, Dorothy Stickney as Mrs. Bigelow and especially Hiram Sherman as Pinky. Sherman is a masterful comic performer and has fine moments as he corrects Tom's spelling or meticulously peels a peach while listening to Tom's confessions, or praises the virtutes of his Pan Am flight bag that allows him to carry both his athletic support and his knitting or whimpers and stamps his foot trying vainly to horrify people with wicked curses. If he were on stage more than half the time and if his character were as good as he is, the show might be justified...
...Days is a two-hour near-monologue delevered by Winnie, a 50-year-old woman who stands buried first up to her waist, then up to her neck, in a desert mound. She lives in a world people only by herself, her husband Willie, and her "things" -- a shopping bag full of knicknacks, and a parasol. With only Willie and the things as a points of reference, Winnie fills up her days, "happy days," with endless chatter and conscientious dips into the bag...
Another way to bag a boodle is to have the good luck to own property where some big enterprise wishes to build. See MODERN LIVING, Monuments to Stubbornness. Our cover story is a monument not to money but to a canny Scot who makes a lot of it. For a spin with the hottest rod on the road, see SPORT, Hero with a Hot Shoe...
From a sugar mill in Oriente province last week, the image of Cuba's most persistent TV performer flickered onto the island's screens. As cameras caught his every move, Fidel Castro filled and stitch-closed a bag of sugar, symbolizing the end of the 1965 harvest. He then faced his audience with the best economic news in his six-year rule. This year's sugar harvest had reached 6,000,000 tons-a 60% gain since 1964 and a return to the crops produced before the Communists seized power in Cuba. "This was a decisive year...