Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MacArthur, beamed proudly at the image of their adopted son James, 17, on a television set in her dressing room in the ANTA Theater. James won high praise for his TV acting debut in the role of a misunderstood youth on CBS-TV's hour-long dramatic show Climax...
...Climax. The first day's singles matches revealed the Aussies' fast-growing power and agility. Dueling with 20-year-old Ken Rosewall, nervous Vic Seixas rarely got his net play going, was trapped cold by the little Australian's backhand and spectacular lobs, lost in four sets, 6-3, 10-8, 4-6, 6-2. For Seixas, it was the sad climax to a summer's uneven performance; at 32, he was just not steady-handed and agile enough to win. Said U.S. Captain Bill Talbert: "You add eight months [since Sydney] to 32 years...
...great occasion in the life of a Northwest Indian, before the turn of the century, was the potlatch. A ceremonial extravaganza that began with gargantuan meals of fish oil and sea food, progressed to bouts of boasting, the potlatch roared to a climax with a prodigious distribution of goods. For a less arrogant, less competitive people, this might have been only a pleasant custom, but for the tribes living an easy life in the mild, rich country between Vancouver and Yakutat Bay, Alaska, the feasts turned into mad giveaway races. Each "gift" was in effect a double dare: to save...
...next two days, his photograph on every front page, Carpenter slept in movie houses. Then Patrolman Clarence Kerr, leaving the Biltmore Theater with his wife, spotted Carpenter snoozing through the gunfire-crackling climax of a western thriller. Policeman Kerr fired five times in the darkness, but fell to the floor, critically wounded, as Carpenter dashed behind the screen and out a fire exit, trailing a spoor of blood from a slug in his right thigh. For the next 23 hours, 500 enraged detectives and 60 squads of patrolmen roamed the area, intent on getting Cop-Killer Carpenter. A helicopter watched...
...Climax! (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS). Deal a Blow; with Macdonald Carey, Phyllis Thaxter...