Word: boxing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nerve of Failure. Riesman has counseled his fellow intellectuals to stop worrying about whether their judgments are approved in the market place or the ballot box, to pursue the truth as independent men, affecting society as models of autonomy, not as victors on this public issue or that. He notes that the young TV audience tells the "good guys" from the "bad guys" simply because the "good guys" are winning. This he deplores...
Last June Rocky needed 15 bloody rounds to punch out a decision over Charles. Last week the husky (5 ft.11 in., 187 Ibs.) champion was back at his brawling best. By now no one expected him ever to learn how to box, but it did not matter. There was no one around who could hurt...
...music dealers this week are featuring a box with an emerald green cover, a faceless figure seated before a Decca microphone, and the word Bing. Spread over the five LPs in the package (price: $27.50) are 89 Crosby renditions with spoken interludes by the crooner himself. Most of the songs are original versions selected from the 2,000-odd sides he recorded in two decades...
...last week, Paramount Pictures Corp. held a press preview of White Christmas in VistaVision, its new wide-screen process and the newest entry in moviedom's gadgetry sweepstakes. Viewers thought that VistaVision resulted, as advertised, in greater clarity on the screen, but few predicted sensational effects at the box office. Said one producer: "CinemaScope got there first amd VistaVision isn't novel and different enough...
Television, which Skouras once called "the greatest enemy the film industry ever had," had also helped Hollywood in a backhanded way. By killing off the market for B pictures, it forced Hollywood to concentrate on bigger and better productions. This has paid off at the box office, where gross is running about 5% ahead of a year ago, and in moviemakers' net profits, which may reach the highest level since 1948. As a result, movie stocks have gone up faster in the past year than the Dow-Jones industrial average (see chart...