Word: casts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fitting enough, in the season for the celebration of the nation's independence, that the Congress should cast its eyes and votes on defense appropriations for the coming year. At the same time it was not too surprising that outspoken Defense Secretary Charlie Wilson should set off the firecrackers too soon−by labeling as "phony" the attempt of the Democratic majority to add an extra $1.1 billion to the Air Force budget (TIME, July 2). Result: the fireworks zoomed, whistled, crackled and spun through Capitol Hill's legislative corridors last week...
...emerged from service as a field artillery major. Worked for four different companies, ranging from construction to rubber products, "took a licking" in the 1929 crash, wound up in 1932 as president of the Bush Terminal Co., Brooklyn. He resigned, stony-broke, when Bush went bankrupt in 1933, and cast about for "something fundamental" to get into. Something fundamental proved to be steel, and in 1934, at 39, he became a "sales student" at the Gary works of Illinois Steel. Rising rapidly, he became manager of industrial relations of the Chicago district for Carnegie-Illinois Steel in 1935, three years...
...into a bar in pursuit of happiness and finds life and liberty there as well. Betty Field did a creditable job as the librarian in a long and unlikely drunk scene, but was hardly good enough to save a play that was sicklied o'er with the pale cast of sentimentality...
...Group 20 people did just about everything well. Director Jerome Kilty worked out a clever gimmick to facilitate the playing of the two twins by one actor, kept most of his cast over-acting to about the right degree, and at the same time managed to make Isabelle, the danseuse, a rather true-to-life and attractive character. The setting by William Roberts was very good--ornate but not cluttered--while his lavish costumes fitted well with the generally exaggerated style of acting...
Surest sign of the healthy state of U.S. architecture is the large number of promising younger talents. And of the whole U.S. cast of modern architects, none has a better proportioned combination of imagination, versatility and good sense than Eero Saarinen, 45, son of late great Finnish-born Architect Eliel Saarinen...