Word: cal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...behind Heckscher and Captain Bill Wister, was beaten in the second round, while fourth ranked Bob Brown reached the third round only to lose 3 to 1 to Roger Campbell, the tournament's top seeded player. Junior Roger Cortesi and Senior Mike Levinson also gained the third round, while Cal Place, lost a close second round match, and Henry Cortesi lost in the first round...
...talent. On these shows NBC has staked prestige and resources in the hope of changing the nation's viewing habits. The NBC spectacular that flashed on screens for 90 minutes last week brought song, dance, comedy, Sonja Henie on ice, and the incomparable Jimmy Durante ("Gimme some No-Cal champagne!"). It was the eighth and best of Weaver's big gambles. But it was not final proof that the spectacular, at $200,000 or more apiece, is going to pay off for NBC with the public, with the critics and with those all-impor-tants of radio...
Central to the play, of course, is the character of Swift himself. In a series of flashbacks, his friends in turn recall his malevolence from seven points of view the seven deadly sins. In each kaleidoscopic event, they are searching for the one clue that will explain his cal nature. At the same time, however, the play is more than a search for the last place in a jig-saw puzzle. Johnson has much to say about the tendency of every man to see in others his own greatest flaw; about the difficulty of re-creating the image...
...next eight months. Shell Oil Co., which supplies 70% of the northern market, frankly hoped that business would return to normal after a while. Said a spokesman: "We will try to continue our operations in the north." But the two U.S. oil companies in Indo-China, Standard-Vacuum and Cal-tex, were not so hopeful. Stanvac closed down completely in Hanoi, was only doing a small business in Haiphong. Caltex took out everything movable. Said one veteran Caltex man: "Our experience in China, where we lost five huge refineries, taught us that there is no possibility of coexistence with Communists...
Double Play. In Glendora, Calif., a man walked into Reed's Hardware Store, asked to see a .45-cal. automatic, was shown a $65 model, admiringly loaded it, pointed it at the clerk, walked out with $41 and the pistol...