Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other shows slated for next month include "The Barrier," "The Day After tomorrow," a return engagement of "I Know My Love," with the Lunts, and "Bell, Book, and Candle." Apart from the D'Oyly Carte's revivals of G. and S., "The Barrier" is the only musical booked so far. It is based on Wright's "Native Son," and stars Lawrence Tibbett. "Death of a Salesman," with Thomas Mitchell playing Willy Loman, will arrive from Broadway in late November...
...sight of the three high-speed transports which had accompanied us, the two destroyers which stood in close to Wolmi, and the three rocket craft resting in a half-moon formation. "Lower the stern gate," barked a loudspeaker. The marines scrambled back to the landing craft; the low barrier separating the LSD's welldeck from the sea outside was cranked down. Slowly the tankand troop-laden LSUs backed stern first into the open...
When the Turners were near the breaking point, a new houseboy, Moses, came on the scene. He was a Zulu. Across the rigidly drawn race barrier, Mary Turner could see that he was everything her husband wasn't. Moses had integrity, stubborn endurance and physical magnificence. In self-defense, she took to nagging him for minor mistakes. Mary was trying to build up a sense of his inferiority in her own mind and his. It didn't work out that way. The story reaches its logical and violent conclusion with Dick Turner gone mad, Mary Turner lying murdered...
Radford admires Douglas MacArthur and sees eye-to-eye with him on most points of Pacific strategy, including the question of America's Pacific frontier. In their view, the frontier is a barrier from the foggy, smoking Aleutians on the north to the Philippines. Part of this line is Formosa (see BACKGROUND FOR WAR), the key to the Western Pacific. MacArthur, Radford and most Navy men believe that Formosa can and must be denied to the enemy, and therefore cheered President Truman's order to defend it. If Formosa is not held, the U.S. positions in Japan...
Last week, at Chicago's Washington Park for the 40th running of the American Derby, Hill Prince made another bid for the title. Although Middleground was not among the nine horses which went to the barrier, the field was a strong one, including William Goetz's flashy, California-bred Your Host and Calumet Farm's entry of Theory and All Blue...