Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your Aug. 19 box on Secretary of Defense McElroy and Procter & Gamble reminds me of a time when, as one of a group of chemical warfare inspectors in training, I was sent to a P. & G.-operated shell-loading plant in Tennessee to observe the handling of explosives. P. & G. maintained a discipline in regard to safety rules that is still a goal with me in my present role as teacher and mother. If Mr. McElroy can apply to the Pentagon some of the principles that were of paramount importance in P. & G.'s plant, he'll come...
...state that sent the La Follettes to the U.S. Senate-and then sent Joe McCarthy-last week changed its political direction again. In a startling and significant upset, voters of Wisconsin elected Liberal Democrat Edward William Proxmire (see box) to complete the unexpired term of Neanderthal Republican McCarthy. Proxmire beat Eisenhower Republican and former six-year Governor Walter Jodok Kohler Jr. by an overwhelming 435,000 votes to 313,000. He swept 56 of the state's 71 counties, every single ward in the city of Milwaukee, ten out of 18 Milwaukee suburbs...
Opera's most flamboyant diva and one of the cinema's hottest box-office blondes were on the outs with their employers. At the Edinburgh Festival, tempestuous Soprano Maria Callas waved a note from her doctor, walked out on Milan's La Piccola Scala (her second such disappearance this summer), said she was going back to Italy, explained: "I'm tired." In Hollywood, irked by a long-term contract with Columbia Pictures that calls for a humiliating $1,250 a week, straw-haired Kim Novak refused to show up for a film, was suspended...
...Reprieve. Graham and his team left their mark on celebrities as well as on New York's anonymous multitudes. Box 31 at the Garden was held by crusade headquarters for visiting VIPs, and the Garden management itself reserved two boxes every night. Such disparate personalities as Perle ("Hostess with the Mostes' ") Mesta and Singer Ethel Waters came whenever they could. For Perle Mesta this meant some ten visits, "whenever I'm in New York. Billy is a perfectly marvelous man who is doing a great deal of good. I plan to give a dinner for him, though...
...Allison, the only live character on the show, with her infectious Midwesternisms ("Wouldn't you just know that would happen, just honestly"). Fran was so taken by the satiric little land of make-believe that she never could bear to watch the puppets being shut away in their box. Last week, as sad Kuklapolitans and sadder viewers said goodbye to a show that was simple, scriptless, sketchily rehearsed and never tied by contracts. Tillstrom said: "It endured on one principle -love. I hope it doesn't sound too holy. But we loved our audience, and they loved...