Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...International New Thought Alliance, percussively dedicated to "Peace, Poise, Power and Plenty," rejoiced in annual convention. From all over the U.S., plus England and Canada, 1,814 enthusiasts of such movements as "Religious Science," "Divine Science," "Church of Truth," "Church of Understanding" and "Science of Mind" gathered to cheer one another, bless money and annihilate negative ideas...
...paucity of favorable news, the stock market had a good session yesterday under the leadership of steels," reported the New York Times one day last week. It was the understatement of the week. With 650,000 steelworkers on strike and 90% of the industry shut down, there seemed little cheer for Wall Street's traders; yet they scrambled to buy. Along with steels, oil and aircraft stocks pushed higher, and the 1956 bull market went up on three of the four trading days. By week's end the Dow-Jones industrial average stood at 504.14. The rise...
...Catered Affair (MGM) is another Bronx cheer, more affectionate than derisive, for the marital problems of the lower middle class. Like the Oscar-winning Marty (TIME, April 18, 1955), the film was originally a TV play by Paddy Chayefsky, the troubadour of the tenements, and it has much the same shirtsleeved intimacy and gamy humor...
...Hong Kong's China traders look for no swift bonanza. In recent years, China has oriented its trade, like its politics, almost exclusively toward the Soviet bloc, is not likely to shift in a hurry. Wrote Singapore's Straits Times, with only a modest cheer: "No doubt there is a tremendous potential market in China, but it is a long...
...drama, the rest of the TV week had a trivial look. NBC's Producers' Showcase offered the 12-year-old Bloomer Girl. Like many Broadway musicals transferred to TV, it had some pleasant tunes and a deplorably outdated plot. At week's end CBS tried to cheer up viewers with its own musical version of John Hersey's A Bell for Adano. Some of the lyrics were unfortunate ("We think more of the bell than the belly . . ."); the chorus of happy villagers was led by a blonde Anna Maria Alberghetti while Barry Sullivan-like a supporting...