Word: brighter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time for all good men to roll out of the sack, grab their notebooks, and hurry to the Yard in search of the Fourth Course, the Fifth Course, or perhaps a whole new slate. The following suggestions--courses of general interest--are some of the brighter items among the spring Term offerings. The list is in no why exhaustive...
Leader Joe Martin, a return to the old rules might check a "destructive trend . . . toward bankruptcy and eventually a socialist state." Illinois' sharp-nosed Leo Allen, who pigeonholed the housing bill in the days when he ran the Rules Committee in the 80th Congress, held out an even brighter prospect. By voting on this one question, the House could decide "whether the entire Truman program will succeed or be defeated...
...expressed regret that the Commission had been unable to grant the network an extension to broadcast due to excess radiation the WHRB system required, but according to a report from the station the technical situation is "looking brighter," and the directors hope to revamp the present system to enable further broadcasting under present FCC regulations...
...when Charles Anderson Dana bought the Sun for $175,000, circulation had soared to 43,000. In 29 years under Dana, ex-managing editor of Greeley's Tribune and onetime Assistant Secretary of War, the Sun shone brighter than ever before or since, was famed as the "newspaperman's newspaper." Under Editor Dana, everything was exciting news: "A new kind of apple, a crying child on the curb, the exact weight of a candidate for President, the latest style in whiskers . . ." When people objected to the Sun's reporting of murder, scandal, gossip and graft, Dana tartly...
...theatergoing is being graphically demonstrated at the Shubert Theater where a new musical revue entitled "Dance Me A Song" is currently playing. It is the composite work of eight songwriters and 11 sketchwriters. It has an esteemed producer and a famous set designer. Its cast includes some of the brighter young names on Broadway. It could have been a swell show but it certainly isn't. In fact, except for some of the sets, all elements of "Dance Me A Song" are just basically mediocre and no amount of personable performing can help them...