Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nominated, to succeed Charles Erwin Wilson as Secretary of Defense, Procter & Gamble President Neil Hosier McElroy of Cincinnati (see box...
...building), the spy hung the studio walls with his own well-executed paintings-a wide-hipped nude, Harlem street scenes, an oil portrait that markedly resembled Khrushchev-stocked up on mystery novels and books on Degas and Van Gogh, sipped his brandy neat at the nearby Music Box bar. He read the local papers and, occasionally, The New Yorker. Sometimes he helped the building janitor make wiring repairs. Said one bemused neighbor later: "He didn't look as if he had a nickel. You'd never take...
...stay," complained Le Parisien Libéré. Conducted tours of "Paris by Night," promising Le Striptease and authentic Apaches, were down to a half of last year's business. Tickets for the Folies-Bèrgere could be had any night by just walking up to the box office. Hotels along the Riviera and the Basque coast were full, but full only of Frenchmen, themselves deserting Paris for the statutory three-week summer vacation (most factories and more than half the shops of Paris are closed in August, as all France takes off at once). Foreigners apparently...
Earning his spurs as newly appointed editor of the News, William Baggs, longtime columnist for the paper, turned failure into feature. When the Sunday news section came off the press last week, a Page One box proclaimed: YOU CAN GET CASH BECAUSE WE ERRED. Underneath, the News admitted that the map in that day's magazine section was all wrong, offered the reader who sent in the "largest number of correct corrections" a $50 award. Total number of replies, 1,014, largest number of corrections offered...
Finally, a word of thanks to producer Lee Falk for his new policy of presenting only plays of high quality. I hope the box office returns will encourage him to continue this policy next summer. His current efforts have done much to make this the most outstanding summer theatre season that Boston has had within my memory...