Word: ben
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...characters with their inner loneliness, outer violence, anarchic dreams. Into the bar, on her wedding eve, comes a beautiful girl (Janice Rule) in prenuptial revolt against a stodgy suburban future; next day she returns, in her wedding dress, to go off with a hard-boiled sailor (well played by Ben Gazzara). The rest of the play concerns the unborn child of the fiance she walked out on, the father she drives to death, and her tempestuous affair with the sailor, who at length walks...
...seemed as if the only friend the hapless suburban commuter had last week was a bold, brainy lawyer who started in the railroad business a mere four years ago. The man: Ben Walter Heineman, 44, chairman of the 9,096-mile Chicago & North Western Railway, which inaugurated a new commuter plan that could well,serve as a guide to troubled roads across the U.S. They sorely needed help. Last week the Lehigh Valley Railroad moaned that it was going broke from its $4,000-$5,000,000-a-year passenger deficit in commuter-heavy New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania...
...Uris, 34, spent two years and traveled 50,000 miles getting the facts for his story, and he relates it in a serviceable, exclamatory prose. But he has written a novel as well as history, and no amount of research can help him in his fiction. His hero, Ari Ben Canaan, has all the two-dimensional subtlety of a sheriff in a TV western; his heroine, Gentile Kitty Fremont, is so often petty-minded and petulant that some readers may suspect Author Uris of a bias against shiksas. Despite its partisan trimmings, Exodus in large measure tells how the Israelis...
...Yogi Berra did it in 1954. Runner-up: Yankee Pitcher Bob Turley. Ben Kerner was not happy even though his St. Louis Hawks were leading the National Basketball Association's Western Division. The Hawks "looked bad even when we were winning," he declared, and forthwith fired Coach Andy Phillip, replaced him with Star Center Ed Macauley...
Died. Sam Zimbalist, 57, M-G-M producer whose fondness for spectacle resulted in such films as Quo Vadis, King Solomon's Mines, Mogambo; of a heart attack on the set of one of the biggest splurges in cinema history-M-G-M's $10 million-plus Ben Hur; in Rome...