Word: box
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stocks, Bonds & Buchwald. British-born Eric Hawkins, who hired on as a copyreader in 1915 after abandoning a vain ambition to box, played up the New York markets, banking on the hunch that this was "must" reading to tourists. This and Columnist Art Buchwald, who walked in one day ten years ago and asked for a job, are the Trib's two most popular features. Roaming the Continent's nightclubs and halls of state, Buchwald gradually assumed the same institutional quality as his employer; his 1953 column explaining Thanksgiving Day to the Trib's 13,000 French...
Swayed. In Bury St. Edmunds, England, when only eleven jurors filed out. of the box at West Suffolk quarter sessions court, Judge Gerald Howard took another look, spotted the twelfth juror sound asleep...
...Fisherman (Centurion Films; Buena Vista) will probably net the biggest box-office catch since The Ten Commandments, despite the fact that it has all the vices and almost none of the homely virtues of the Lloyd C. Douglas novel that inspired it. For oldtime Moviemaker Rowland V. Lee (The Count of Monte Cristo) knows just where the millions lie: in fictionalized history, resplendently costumed, sexed up, and heavily flavored with religion. There are sumptuous orgies in palaces that look like the new banks of Beverly Hills; John the Baptist is beheaded in 70-mm. Panavision, color and stereophonic sound...
...Fair Lady holds the musical field, with The Music Man a close second, and Redhead (Gwen Verdon up) followed by Flower Drum Song just about rounding the box-office turn...
...Fair Lady holds the musical field, with The Music Man a close second, and Redhead (Gwen Verdon up) followed by Flower Drum Song just about rounding the box-office turn...