Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sincere thanks for your criticism of the art houses of Manhattan. The same is true of Chicago. I'd begun to think I had lost my appreciation of art because I find nothing intellectually stimulating or even entertaining about women prancing around that old sex box in their absolutely...
...loaded their cargo aboard a helicopter. The camp commander, Major Thomas G. James of Plymouth, Pa., flew the copter himself. James planned to leave the boy at a disused field and make him walk back to Ascom City. But he found he could not get the box open, and flew on to Uijongbu, twelve miles north of Seoul. 'T have a box of spare parts on board," he radioed the field. When the box was unloaded, a Korean soldier heard "whimpering," found Kim inside. "That's a slicky boy [slang for thief]," observed James. Freed, Kim made...
...lecture, a testimonial dinner, and a spot of home life in his East Side Manhattan apartment with his wife, Canadian Actress Suzanne Cloutier, and their two children. In between, he also cavorted through eight performances of his Ustinov-written Broadway comedy, Romanoff and Juliet, which was sagging at the box office when its run was bolstered by his spectacular TV performance as Dr. Samuel Johnson (TIME...
...Pete played back when jazz was dirt, and money like I said come from funerals, and maybe a honky-tonk or some dance hall over Storyville. They played beat-up horns and cigar-box banjos and basses made from barrels; and Pete had an old piano goods for noise but no tone-so they let the rhythm carry the tune, and they had more than enough of that. And pretty soon the people got to like the noise, and things moved fast and loud, like anybody'll tell who's heard an old-time band battle...
While television is emptying movie houses across the nation (TIME, Feb. 10), business is booming for Kansas City's Elmer C. Rhoden Jr., 35, president of Commonwealth Theaters, a Midwestern chain of 102 theaters. Rhoden's box-office secret: "teenage pictures," denned by him as "rock 'n' roll, drag races, horror stories, that sort, of thing...