Word: booths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...robbed!" came the battle cry. A youth hurdled a 3½-ft. fence onto the track, brandished a fist-and hundreds swarmed after him. They attacked the judge's booth at the finish line, injuring John DeMatteo, who was pinned inside. They threw bottles at the infield tote board until the lights that indicate the amount of money bet finally winked out. They pulled a sulky from the paddock and set it afire. Bands of vandals dashed wildly through the stands, breaking windows, lighting bonfires, ripping program booths apart...
...pure Kerr dialogue helps. Mary is Debbie Reynolds, giving one of her sprightliest performances as the wickedly witty, nearly divorced wife of Publisher Barry Nelson, who repeats his stage role in sharp, swinging style. "Life with Mary was like going into a telephone booth with an open umbrella," he rasps. "No matter which way you turned, you got it in the eye." Her bill of particulars includes: "It was hard to communicate with you. You were always communicating with yourself. The line was busy...
...section is Associate Editor William Bowen, a graduate of Princeton (Phi Beta Kappa, '48) and holder of a master's degree in history from the Yale Graduate School, who has been a TIME staffer since 1949. Working with him will be Researcher Karen Burger Booth. Both move to The Law from The Nation, where both handled many stories dealing with intricate aspects of law. Senior editor of the section is Richard Seamon, a Yalesman ('40) who once attended Columbia Law School for a short time but does not offer that as a qualification...
...that the Army should preferably be commanded (despite its worldwide growth) by a General from Great Britain. Last week its 49 territorial commissioners closed their door to all out siders and in four ballots chose Scottish-born Frederick L. Coutts, 64, for the job first held by William Booth (1865-1912), later by Booth's son Bramwell and his daughter Evangeline, and most recently by General Wilfred Kitching...
...James Booth is attractive and forceful as the young cuckold. U.S. audiences will recognize Murray Melvin from his fine work as a star in A Taste of Honey, but most of the cast are unfamiliar. Some, in fact--like the Jewish bakery proprietress and the pub owner--are not professional actors; they play themselves. Yet there is not an inferior performance by anyone. All are as convincing as the architectural surroundings, now gradually succumbing to the forces of urban redevelopment (one of the buildings used was razed two days after filming...