Word: beaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dropped their old pre-Korea attacks on "governmental regimentation and creeping socialism" in favor of the new war issues. It was very easy to point to the "Failure" of foreign policy and defense policy, to military unpreparedness, and to the "disclosures" of communism in the U.S. government. Louis H. Bean, the only forecaster who was right in 1948, wouldn't predict an all out GOP victory, but he clearly suggested that Korea had given the Republicans their one real chance...
...first step was to find a bean pot with great potential aura. After a search through local potteries, he found a dandy: a 200-qt., 100-lb., 50-year-old affair. Then one day last week he loaded his bean pot into a Yellow Cab, had himself driven to a deserted highway excavation, eased the pot down into the mud ("to dirty it up a bit"), and hauled it back to his office. Next day, Boston papers received a special B.U. release: "A gigantic bean pot . . . was unearthed on the banks of the Charles River yesterday . . . Prof. Albert Morris . . . expert...
...another release: the president of the Syracuse University Alumni Club of Boston had claimed the pot on the grounds that it was "very likely" made in Syracuse. Final announcement (due some time before the B.U.-Syracuse game next week): the two schools have agreed to play for the bean pot from here...
Publicityman Wood didn't seem to mind that a lot of people knew about his stunt. He was confident that, within a few years, nobody would care very much how the old Bean Pot Tradition did start...
Died. Pauline Lord, 60, Broadway star of the '20s and '30s; after long illness; in Alamogordo, N. Mex. Though her greatest roles were tragic (Anna in Anna Christie, Zenobia in Ethan Frome), she showed fine comic talents as Abby in The Late Christopher Bean, as Mrs. Wiggs in the 1934 movie (her first and last) Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. Cast in a good many flops during her career ("I have always played everything that was put before me"), she usually got high praise from the critics in both good plays...