Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other mortal. I want children of my own." The dialogue is typical of one of the funniest pictures to reach U.S. screens in years-although the humor is not deliberate. A sort of Homeric Tarzan, heavy on sex and mixed-up mythology, Hercules is also the biggest surprise box-office smash in Hollywood's memory. Starring a onetime (1947) Mr. America named Steve Reeves, Hercules drew $900,000 in its first week when it opened in 145 neighborhood houses last month. This week, with a total of 600 Eastmancolor prints ready to go (largest order Pathe Labs has ever...
...York stage is so tethered to the Broadway box-office that none of the city's 30 playhouses, that constitute the professional American stage, supports theatre culturally or on a long term basis, he added in his speech on "The American Theatre Today...
...that a London public relations firm had been hired to boost the Premier's stock there. Other Japanese fear a disaster like the visit to London of Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fujiyama, who insisted on making a TV appearance. When, with the camera on him, he was shown a box of Japanese ball bearings that copied a well-known British brand and was asked what he had to say, Fujiyama indignantly stalked out, while his agitated aide cried: "Japan has been insulted...
...found beneath it to show that snakes have lived there. When the tree is carefully cut down, selected carpenters carve the three images. A priest-his eyes blindfolded, his hands covered with cloth-transfers from the old idol to the new its essential mystery; some say it is a box of quicksilver, some that it is bones from Vishnu himself...
Testimony, Not Test. The statement (see box) will be a testimony, not a test, of faith. Chiefly responsible for its text: Commission Chairman Dr. Elmer J. F. Arndt, professor of historical theology and Christian ethics at E. & R. Eden Theological Seminary in Webster Groves, Mo. Said Arndt: "We wanted a statement that was genuinely Biblical, that was expressed in the words of our time, and that had the form and character to make it suitable for liturgical use. We found our efforts always turned out to be patterned on the Apostles' Creed: first we talk about God, the Creator...