Word: bit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Goldilocks, a musical visit to the Cro-Magnon days of moviemaking, was singing just a bit off key in Philadelphia, and its authors, Critic Walter Kerr and his wife Jean (Please Don't Eat the Daisies), were working overtime to tune it up. At the Grand, the musical version of Vicki Baum's Grand Hotel that is scheduled to take Paul Muni back to his beginnings as a vaudeville hoofer, is laid up in California while its producers try to produce a new book. Other shows were more nearly ready to kiss the road goodbye...
...time, pressagents recalled glowingly that when Debbie was in high school her mother had embroidered sweaters for her with the initials N.N.-for "non-neckers." Eddie, while never one to be stopped by initials, seemed to behave, at least for a while, and did not chase around a bit more than he had as a bachelor...
...brief period one day last week, stocks on the New York Exchange nudged through the alltime bull-market high of 521.05 on the Dow-Jones industrial average. They slipped a bit before the close, thus technically set no new record, since the closing prices are the ones that count. Three times in the last two years, stocks have marched up to the high set in April 1956, then backed away from it. At week's end Wall Streeters were split on whether the average would burst through and set a new record, or whether the market would slide into...
Morris, after long hours in Lamont, hazarded the heresy that James never really did say anything that needed saying, and even if he'd tried, the style would have been in the way. Of course, Morris was a bit naive. He hadn't translated literature into an ontological entity, and terms like "rendition" seemed little more than post facto price tags on genius. Morris, an aristocrat beneath the talcum powder, objected to the idea of fiction which has been the kept woman of the bourgeoise, the Critics. And James was really a critic writing handbooks...
...experience, and Yovicsin will have to rely on essentialy untried talent to back them up. At guard, Anderson and Keating will be supported by sophomore Terry Lenzner, who has shown much promise, and again, below this, things are pretty uncertain. At center and end, the situation has eased a bit as practice has progressed. Pete Eliades is a dependable understudy behind Foster, and below Hershon and Keohane, Warren Huff and sophomore Bert Messenbaugh have looked good...