Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...operatic versions, chiefly Nicolai's Merry Wives of Windsor, Verdi's Falstaff, or Vaughan Williams' Sir John in Love. But the directors were willing to gamble (or gambol); and their slot (or slut) machine has come up with three cherries--a winning combination that ought to keep the box office coffers filled and the audience coughers silent...
High above the Delaware River shore, spotlights glowed dimly through the green-and-orange striped canvas tent. Inside, the audience of 1,500 foot-tapped to some sassy songs. Bells Are Ringing jangled tunefully onstage, and for the Lambertville, N.J. Music Circus, the box office kept ringing up boffo business...
...Victor A. Lundy, a 36-year-old ex-combat infantryman (Purple Heart) and Harvard graduate who settled in Florida six years ago, promptly began making a name for his small, Sarasota-based firm by arguing that a house need not be a box, or even box-shaped. In his top-prizewinning house for Samuel H. Herron Jr. at Venice, Fla. (see color and blueprint). Lundy threw a parasol of laminated southern pine arches over the living areas as an independent roof shelter, then skillfully combined the whole series of circles and rectangles into a floor plan that he hoped would...
Died. Maurice M. Milligan, 74, tenacious U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri (1934-45), who toppled the corrupt Pendergast machine, sent Boss Tom Pendergast to jail for income tax evasion; in Kansas City, Mo. Milligan struck the entrenched machine at its vitals: the ballot box. He convicted 259 Pendergast lackeys for fraud in the 1936 election alone. He later lost (1940) a bitter primary race for U.S. Senator to Pendergast Protege Harry Truman, who as Vice President in 1945 closed Milligan's career-by blocking his reappointment...
Some Like It Hot. One of the top box-office attractions has Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis dressed as females and Marilyn Monroe half-dressed as herself...