Word: colorings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Defense Attorney Geoffrey Lawrence, Q.C. A puckish, mousy little man with a mind as orderly as a calculating machine. Barrister Lawrence, specialist in real estate and divorce cases, was a relative stranger in criminal court. In his curled white wig and black silk robe, he lacked entirely the stage color of the traditional defense lawyer; yet almost apologetically he managed to leave witness after witness floundering in confusion...
NEGRO WORKERS can be denied union membership on ground of color alone, says Wisconsin Supreme Court. In what lawmakers believe is first such decision in U.S., court turned down appeal of two Milwaukee Negro masons for entry to bricklayers' union. Ruled court: "Unions are voluntary associations," and applicants "cannot force themselves [in] against the will of those already members...
...pelagic piffle, of course, but the isles of Greece, in Milton Krasner's color photography, are as lovely as ever they were when the Nereids nested in their shoals. And although, as the archaeological hero, 43-year-old Actor Ladd wears a somewhat too convincing aura of antiquity, he at least manages to make the heroine look as if she can actually act. Not that it matters...
...weeks had Dwight Eisenhower looked so well: his color was good, his step quick. Nevertheless, health-conscious Washington buzzed with rumor. Under congressional consideration, but likely to advance nowhere, were proposals for firmly certifying presidential disability and transferring presidential functions to the Vice President (including an Administration recommendation advanced by Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr., delegating responsibility for the decision to the Cabinet). The hubbub prompted a blunt question at the President's press conference: Was Ike planning to resign? Replied the President coldly: "The worst rot that I have heard since I have been in this office." There...
...Saturday Color Carnival (Sat. 9 p.m., NBC). Salute to the new baseball season, with Mickey Mantle, Don Larsen, Ted Williams and a show-business team including Tony Bennett and Janis Paige (color...