Word: columbias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...YORK, May 1--The varsity baseball team muddled through to an 8-6 victory at Columbia this afternoon, in what must surely rate as one of the worst-played games since they moved the sport out of the cow pastures and onto the skin diamonds...
Cook was most unfairly treated in the first two innings, when Columbia was presented with an early 4-0 lead. The Crimson got one run back in the third, and then tied the score an inning later with the day's one legitimate rally. Doubles by Bob Forbush and Mouse Kasarjian, and singles by Cook, George Harrington, and Al Martin produced three tallies...
...they belong to the era when the Marx Brothers crammed more humanity into a ship's stateroom than a dormitoryful of college students assaulting a telephone booth. Clutching the slapstick just as hard, over the course of 24 years the Stooges cranked out 194 pie-faced comedies for Columbia Pictures, most of them two-reelers designed to run as curtain raisers before the main feature...
Eventually, the change in comedy styles brought the curtain raiser down. Columbia refused to renew when The Three Stooges' contract ended on Jan. 1, 1958, has since sold its pre-1948 backlog of their films to television. The trio considered breaking up the act-until TV, that supposed wrecker of old-style comedians, turned out to be their salvation. The kiddy population roared at the antique routines. By last week the reruns were running ahead of such competition as Popeye and Mickey Mouse among the romper set, and the rejuvenated Three Stooges were swinging cross-country in a highly...
That the forces striving to make a great big fool of American man have struck a winning streak is the contention of Jacques Barzun, a Columbia University professor who would like very much to nag at the U.S. conscience if he knew where to look for it. It is not at the U.S. as such that Barzun fires his bullets; it is at the modern world at large-"egalitarian democracy, mass education and journalism, the cult of art and philanthropy, and the manners coincident with these...