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Word: bess (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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While members of the press corps surrounded the Faculty Club waiting for Mather to make a statement, he reportedly slipped out the ladies' entrance of the Club. His statement was issued between the second and third acts of "Porgy and Bess," smash hit of the 1935 season--although Mather does not recall the incident now. This statement again showed a spirit of rebellion. "When the splendid group of patriotic teachers are singled out for treatment as suspicious characters, I rebel...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: Two Teachers Refuse Oath, Lose Posts; Professor Would Still Repeal 1935 Act | 11/27/1959 | See Source »

...movie business was never better than it was during August's humid midsummer heat. August's top ten moneymakers as reported by Variety: 1) North by Northwest (M-G-M), 2) Anatomy of a Murder (Columbia), 3) Hole in the Head (United Artists), 4) Porgy and Bess (Columbia), 5) South Seas Adventure (Cinerama), 6) The Nun's Story (Warner), 7) The Big Circus (Allied Artists), 8) Darby O'Gill and the Little People (Buena Vista), 9) Five Pennies (Paramount), 10) Last Train from Gun Hill (Paramount...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOX OFFICE: Moneymakers | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

Porgy and Bess. George Gershwin would spin like a top at the heavy, wide-screen pageant that Producer Sam Goldwyn has fashioned from his folk opera, but nothing can stop the tingle of Gershwin's wonderful songs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Sep. 14, 1959 | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

Porgy and Bess. Sam Goldwyn's $7,000,000 attempt to make a cinematic success of the Gershwin folk opera, with Pearl Bailey and Sammy Davis Jr. doing their best to relieve the monotony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Sep. 7, 1959 | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

Porgy and Bess. Sam Goldwyn's $7,000,000 attempt to make a cinematic success of the Gershwin folk opera, with Pearl Bailey and Sammy Davis Jr. doing their best to relieve the monotony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Aug. 31, 1959 | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

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