Word: boxing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...widening breach between the 25-year-old Hollywood Production Code, which has recently relaxed its taboo list, and the Roman Catholic Legion of Decency, still the nation's most powerful box-office pressure group, is gradually becoming more obvious. Items...
Voter's Choice. In Wibaux, Mont., denied the chance to vote because his name was not on the voters' list, W. L. Hammond testily halted the election by marching off with the ballot box...
...Patient F.R.) blew up at me at the dance. He likes the fast music and he got mad when I played a slow number in the juke box. He walked away from me. The next day I chose to take care of him in an ether treatment because I made up my mind that somehow I'd get him to like me again. He does now, but it was because of my persistence in the matter...
...similar to a picture that ran in the Herald Trib. Trumpeted the Chicago Trib in a Page One story: "The breathtaking 160° picture" marks the opening of a new era in news photography. The mystery camera that took the picture was "concealed in a battered black box resembling a doctor's suitcase." Two days later, the Chicago Trib let out the big secret about its "mystery camera." In an editorial aimed good-naturedly at the Herald Trib, the Chicago Trib said that the "mystery camera" was actually an old-fashioned "panorama" camera (patented in 1896), similar...
...Prodigal (MGM) is one more Biblical exegesis by the box office theologians of Hollywood. A freewheeling, full-color CinemaScopic plunge into the anachronistic past, the film is based on the parable of the prodigal son according to St. Luke, but the scenario is jazzed up with additional story by a trio of latter-day prophets (Maurice Zimm, Joe Breen Jr., Samuel James Larsen...