Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a classical Swan Lake and the sprightly Fancy Free, they got the main course: Agnes de Mille's Fall River Legend, with Nora Kaye, the big-eyed little ballerina who has made Fall River one of Ballet Theatre's signatures as well as one of her own. She spun through the story of the gentle, murderous New England spinster ("Lizzie Borden took an ax . . .") like something out of a Freudian nightmare, and her audience loved...
...song had hair on its chest, and would be hard to croon with mush in the mouth. Ahbez took the music to Burl Ives, who quickly recorded it for Columbia. By the time Bing Crosby got it onto wax for Decca last month, and Vaughn Monroe had done a big, first-class production job for Victor, Riders was roweling hard for the top of the hit parade...
...Hearst had just bought to make war on Millionaire E. T. Earl's evening Express. City Editor Campbell printed his Page One on a green newsprint, and circulation climbed. When the Express imitated his stunt, Campbell headlined: E. T. EARL TURNS GREEN WITH ENVY. The Herald's big break came when the Express tagged Campbell's choice for mayor the candidate of "women of the underworld." Campbell sent reporters out to ask the candidate's clubwomen supporters how they liked being called prostitutes. They didn't, and the Herald picked up thousands of canceled Express...
...them, and all the other Her-Ex readers, he plays the latest murders for all they are worth-and more. He dresses up his crime stories with phony montages, demands a new angle for the lead story in each of his seven editions. He has a talent for tagging big crimes with a headline catchphrase; two of his trademarks- on the "Black Dahlia" murder and the "White Flame" murder-were promptly picked up by other papers. But "if you give the readers something sensational on one side of the page," Campbell says, "you ought to give them something solid...
...big midyear show, which opened last week, Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum had chosen an appropriately big subject: "The Classical Contribution to Western Civilization." Covering 25 centuries, the exhibition set out to demonstrate how much was owed to the Greeks and Romans by medieval, Renaissance and even modern...