Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thing you failed to consider is the wish of women around the world to adopt the "American bosom." A friend from England told me that during the war her G.I. boy friend had his mother send her a box of American lingerie. Her figure became an instant attraction as soon as she began wearing her uplift bra, which with care and patching lasted three years...
Carl Stokes, a Negro state legislator who last November came within 2,000 votes of unseating Locher, had an entirely different insight. "Ralph can't comprehend the problem," Stokes said. "He thinks that because he doesn't have his hand in the cash box he's doing a good job. My campaign was for the people in Hough a symbol of hope, a chance to get at least a fair shake. Now they riot because they have no hope and nothing to lose...
Punching the Producer. Members of the studio audience, who themselves tend to resemble a road company of Marat/Sade, are invited into the "Beef Box" to vent further ill logic, ill manners, neologisms and non sequiturs. Guests are frequently told to "get lost" or they steam off the set voluntarily; one threw a phone at Joe (it missed), punched the producer in the mouth. During last year's Watts riot, Pyne displayed a gun on screen in front of a Negro guest and was himself bounced for a week. Pyne does not deny charges that he prefers heat over light...
...could probably get along with box office receipts and subscription tickets the way we did this year," Mayer said. Extra funds, he said, would be used to pay the living expenses of the Club members in the show, who pressently have to shift for themselves...
...Full of Talent." Schulberg has found that the ghetto is "full of talent, full of innate ability," and his charges have already produced enough poetry to consider publishing an anthology to be called Voices of Watts (see box). Star pupil is unquestionably Johnie Scott, 20, who was born in the ward of a women's prison, nonetheless won a scholarship to Harvard but dropped out after a year. Scott, whose poem bad news has been published in Los Angeles magazine, has been contacted by Alfred A. Knopf Inc. and Harper's magazine, is planning to return to college...