Word: casts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conservative factions-and Ike won the state by 186,000. West Virginia Democrats suffered because of corruption charges against their state administration. But more than anything else, the Eisenhower showing in the South was attributable to the fact that voters rose above their civil-rights grievances and resentments to cast a solid vote of approval for Dwight Eisenhower as a world leader in a time of crisis...
...running ahead in Pennsylvania, the state the Democrats had said they had to take in order to win. The Stevenson forces en joyed a few slim sunbeams-14 sure electoral votes in North Carolina (where one Jerry D. Batts of Roanoke Rapids was declared to have cast his vote, though he died with it clutched in his hand), expected pluralities in most of the other Southern states, a good lead in Missouri, a strong opening in industrial Michigan, a slight opening lead in California...
...Pennsylvania, where almost 4,500,000 senatorial votes were cast, onetime Philadelphia Reform Mayor Joseph S. Clark Jr., 55, defeated Republican Senator James H. ("Big Red") Duff by 20,000 votes to become an important new figure on the national Democratic scene...
...local strutting, drawling, over-eager youth buck is neatly created by Dick Cattani. Phyllis Ferguson is graceful and strong in the role of the town bed-warmer, while Mary Wild looks excellent as she broods sadly through the role of the grieving mother. The director, Beverly Bourns, molds her cast with a good eye for placing people around an efficient, simple stage, designed by Donald Adam. The costumes by Marjorie Meeks, are appropriate...
Goldovsky followers may well see how successful the technique is in training excellent but comparatively inexperienced talent, for Schoep has done an amazing job readying the cast for opening night in a limited period of time...