Word: borning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...play, "The Rat Race," Garson Kanin has made use of some of the ingredients that have made his "Born Yesterday" the huge success it continues to be. And his central character shares many of the same cultural attitudes of Miss Billie ("Drop dead") Dawn. Unfortunately, however, this new play lacks the swift elip of humor of "Born Yesterday," and the story it tells is as sentimental and implausible as that of "Anna Lucasta...
...Though born in America, Grosz has spent most of his 56 years in Germany. During his entire artistic career he has depicted and satirized many types of human folly; but he has always reserved his most savage and telling strokes for the institution of War. "A Piece of My World" contains works by Grosz that are taken from many stages of his career. Despite a regrettable lack of dates on most of the paintings, the observer can follow Grosz' progress from early attacks on specific, topical subjects to abstract, but unmistakable blows at broad subjects like warfare and wretchedness...
...lack of steel, Detroit's automakers were forced to lay off 37,000 more workers this week. But except for strike-born dislocations, the U.S. seemed on the mend from the recession. Employment had picked up so much that U.S. officials removed five areas from their "critical" list of places with high unemployment...
...Born. To Thomas Francis ("Tommy") Dorsey, 44, belligerent, trombone-tootling bandleader (the "Sentimental Gentleman of Swing"), and third wife Jane New Dorsey, 26: their first child (his third), a daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Catherine Susan. Weight...
...Born to wealth (his father was a railroad tycoon), Firbank spent most of his short life roaming around the Mediterranean and the Caribbean, halting, as the whim seized him, in a tent in the desert, a palace in Portugal or an old house in Constantinople. He carried around with him a trunkful of objets d'art, including a bronze bull, his own novels bound in white vellum, some colored quill-pens, a "vast tortoiseshell crucifix" and stacks of "those large blue rectangular postcards" on which he wrote both his novels and correspondence ("Tomorrow I go to Hayti," crooned...