Word: bane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After the meeting, the Southern governors walked into the White House Conference Room, got Faubus on the phone, twice read the text of the proposed statement, got his endorsement. Said Faubus to Frank Bane, executive secretary of the Governors' Conference: "Fine! When do you want me to put it out?" Answer: as soon as possible. But that evening, after Faubus' statement had clacked in on the press association Teletypes, the President hustled back from the Wilson party with Brownell. underlined sentence after sentence that was not only unacceptable but was an outright contradiction of what Faubus had promised...
Repairmen also complain that U.S. industry's soaring production schedules are the bane of their business. "Never in the history of the appliance industry have we had a time when so much faulty merchandise was being received," says Al Bernsohn, vice president of the 5,000-member National Appliance and Radio-TV Dealers Association. In a recent sampling, 70% of the members polled reported an increase in broken appliances from the factory. Railroad-salvage salesmen bucked them on to cut-rate retailers, and the discounters in turn passed them on to the public, leaving the independent repairman to handle...
Lack of originality, however, is the real bane of this musical. The lyrics of Frank Reardon are a little more inane than most; but Earnest G. Schweikert's music is acceptable commercial fare and the dances staged by Bob Hamilton are at least as lively as those on any television show. Thus Eddie Foy, who plays Rumple, Stephen Douglass, the cartoonist, and Gretchen Wyler, as a sex-smitten gag writer, have at least acceptable material with which to work. For Miss Wyler, a fine comedienne and dancer, it is nearly good enough, but the show as a whole can scarcely...
...scandal. Both talents he diligently brought to his famous prose portraits, one of which was 23,000 words long, while another never got beyond one line, i.e., "Dr. Pell is positive that his name was Holybushe." Aubrey's Lives have been the historian's bounty and bane: his research was fascinating, but often based on mere hearsay. Whatever his shortcomings, no other biographer has ever written more vivid, true-to-life descriptions of Aubrey's lusty century...
...FRED W. BANE...