Word: brookses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"Who ever heard," exclaimed Playwright Moss Hart, "of theater folk giving a party for a critic?" Last week, nonetheless, Broadway's brightest luminaries took over Sardi's with the sole unprecedented aim of honoring one of the enemy: the New York Times's gentle, erudite Brooks Atkinson...
Last week's blowout was all the more remarkable for the fact that, in a career of aisle-sitting that began 33 years ago, Justin Brooks Atkinson has made few acquaintances in the theater for fear of compromising his integrity. (He met Katharine Cornell and Thornton Wilder for the...
Groundless Fears. Brooks Atkinson is also one of the few U.S. theater critics who earned a byline as a topnight newsman. After a ten-month tour as the Times's-Moscow correspondent in 1945, Atkinson won a Pulitzer Prize for his clear-focused reporting on conditions inside Russia. During...
Dealers who go in for the old hard sell find the effort worthwhile. By having its salesmen rustle up prospects by phone calls or through friends, hustle out and make personal calls on them, San Francisco's Ellis Brooks Agency sold 40 more Chevrolets in January than in the...
The freshman swimming team will face an undefeated and heavily favored Yale squad at New Haven today. Though the Yardlings have won nine meets and have suffered only a one point loss to Dartmouth, Coach William Brooks foresees little or no hope for victory against the powerhouse Bullpups.