Word: burle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spin-Off. In Hillisburg, Ind., Mrs. Burl Carter, operator of a family-owned furniture store, accepted a used living-room set in part payment for a new set, sold the used furniture for three frogs' legs and a quart of gooseberries...
Desire Under the Elms (at the Capitol in Somerville). Burl Ives misses, but Sophia Loren and Tony Perkins preserve O'Neill's incest and infanticide faithfully...
...stocks were coming down to size. Last week Gulf Oil Corp., Phillips Petroleum Co., Texas Co., Tidewater Oil Co. and Shell Oil Co. all reported record sales-and often record profitssfor 1957. Almost without exception they expected a good year in 1958. Said Cities Service President Burl S. Watson: "We have our problems, but every company is forecasting still another increase in demand this year...
...Hollywood's credit that the extremities of the Elms have not been pruned. O'Neill set out to write a Yankee Oedipus Rex, but what came out might more appropriately have been titled Sex Rex. The antagonists of the drama are a father (Burl Ives) and a son (Anthony Perkins), and the subject of their struggle, as in the myths of heroic succession on which the drama is modeled, is the land (a New England farm) and the woman (Sophia Loren). The son aspires to his inheritance, but the father, a massive brute of 76 who vows...
...movies three times a week, exulted in the talents of their cook. About once a week they talked by radiotelephone to their families. Occasionally, some of them got tired of hearing certain hi-fi records, took to hiding them around the camp (one victim: twangy Ballad Singer-Guitarist Burl Ives). But the men balked only once-when a stateside psychologist sent down a lengthy questionnaire probing each man's attitude toward the others. On unanimous demand, the camp doctor tore up the questions...