Word: boxing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Box for Crises. "When Joe came back to Detroit last spring," says patient Julia Dodge, "I thought we might have some social life again, but I just couldn't plan a thing. Almost every night he brings papers home with him . . . We used to play bridge, but haven't had a game for four or five years." Dodge still has three hobbies that take his mind off money matters: photography, supervising his gardener on Sunday mornings, and playing with his three grandchildren, the offspring of his artist...
...hedge that ran only 20 feet from where the President sat. At 7:20 a string of firecrackers exploded somewhere in the neighborhood. "They are celebrating a birthday over there," a member of the Remón party remarked. Two minutes later bursts of machine-gun fire sprayed the box. Two men died instantly; Remón's heavy frame slumped to the floor, blood darkening his pleated white sport shirt. "That was no firecracker," he gasped...
...Box No. 35 of the Golden Horseshoe, the place usually reserved for visiting statesmen and royalty, sat a small, aged lady who had once been a washerwoman in Philadelphia. Her name was Anna Anderson. As a girl, her daughter dreamed of singing in this great gilt and plush house. Now, at 52, Contralto Marian Anderson was realizing the dream. The first Negro singer to appear at the Metropolitan, she was making her debut in Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera...
...Donald O'Connor, Mitzi Gaynor, Marilyn Monroe and Johnnie Ray-and some of the names drop with a big thud. The show is an Irving Berlin potpourri, containing some good old sweetmeats along with a few fresh-picked sour apples. The mixture will probably simmer steadily at the box office, even though fussy moviegoers feel they have reached the Berlin point. Singer-Dancer Mitzi Gaynor has a figure that suggests a finely machined set of ball bearings, becomingly encased, and Marilyn Monroe will undoubtedly singe the eyebrows off front-row patrons in her Heat Wave number, in which...
...Britain last week a box score on nationalized v. denationalized industry was posted. Year-end reports showed that steel, denationalized by the Tories after they took power three years ago, was doing much better than the government-run coal mines and railroads. Steel output last year hit an alltime high of 18.5 million tons, 43% over the prewar rate, and production schedules released last week estimated production at about 19.5 million tons this year and 21 million...