Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Catholicism is no longer a national political liability (see box)-many Southern and Midwestern Democratic politicians gulp hard when his name is mentioned. Geography weakens his position as a possible running mate for New York's Harriman. but he stands high on the Stevenson list...
...could match the coverage of the Times. Routed out of bed shortly after midnight, Managing Editor Turner Catledge ran the show himself from his office in the corner of the city room. At first Catledge thought that all he needed was a small box, but as the plight of the Andrea Doria grew more desperate, he put all 15 men of his night staff to work, splashed on an eight-column, three-line, 48-point headline, second only to the 60-point head the conservative Times reserves for "declarations of war." As stories poured in from the foreign desk...
Bigger Than Life (20th Century-Fox) is the story of a medical case history wildly sensationalized with an eye for box-office returns. It will predictably outrage an army of doctors, frighten thousands of patients, and justifiably annoy drug manufacturers. The medical mischance it purports to describe was always rare, is now almost obsolete. The whole story is only remotely faithful to its original, one of The New Yorker's "Annals of Medicine" articles, a sober, sound piece by Writer Berton Roueche that was titled "Ten Feet Tall...
Faust, as a play, has languished for decades in literature courses and anthologies. It is a difficult drama to produce: it is long, the requirements on the actors in interpretation are tremendous, and the title of this musty classic does not draw at the box-office. Moreover, it is a three-ring circus of dramatic forms--a curious medley of tragedy, farce, melodrama, satire and philosophy--which presents an almost insurmountable problem of style and pacing for the director...
...Lest the American League be overlooked, Red Sox Slugger Ted Williams walloped his 400th home run in a game with the Kansas City Athletics, then expressed his pleasure by spitting at the assembled writers in the press box. Just in case it was misunderstood, Ted repeated his hit-and-spit performance a few days later. Reaching automatically for their record books, the sportswriters credited Ted with a new major-league record for public expectoration...