Word: comeback
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After some years away from motion pictures, Montgomery Clift makes a very creditable comeback in the part of the school teacher. His acting is now characterized by the jerky, uncompleted, but strangely effective gestures which distinguished the work of the late James Dean. If the teacher's actions are still not entirely comprehensible, the fault must be laid to the script and not to Clift...
...discerning ears it was soon clear that Mr. and Mrs. Edwards were too gruesome to be real. One West Coast listener thought they were "an old couple obviously trying to make a comeback"; another insisted they were Margaret and Harry Truman. Their real identity: Orchestra Leader Paul Weston and his wife, Singer Jo Stafford. Paul and Jo have been burlesquing other pop performers at parties for years, decided to record the gag after Columbia executives heard Weston's act at a sales convention (Columbia A & R Man George Avakian picked the name Jonathan Edwards, after the fiery Colonial preacher...
...Baby's pacifier, long condemned as unsanitary, likely to cause disease and deform the teeth, is making a comeback. An American Dental Association spokesman wrote in Today's Health that many pediatricians and dentists now regard the pacifier as the lesser of two evils when compared with thumb sucking. Strong point in the pacifier's favor: children give them up earlier (usually at 14 months), then usually do not take to the thumb, which can gravely deform the permanent teeth...
Gardens & Statues. Krupp's amazing comeback symbolizes the thrust, determination and vigor that have made West Germany one of the most prosperous nations in Europe, industrially the world's fourth most powerful. The energy and ingenuity of German industry has more than doubled the country's industrial production since 1950. Last year Germany manufactured more than 1,000,000 trucks and autos, became the world's second largest automaker. Steel output reached 2,000,000 tons a month for the first time, exceeding that of Hitler's Reich in 1938 and pushing Germany into first...
...began rebuilding the Krupp empire as soon as he was permitted to return to his Essen headquarters. To finance the comeback, he dug out the firm's accumulated deposits from still-existing bank accounts, borrowed upwards of $17 million from commercial banks, used the $2,600,000 that he (and each of his brothers and sisters) got from the Allied sale of Krupp properties. With the help of this capital and generous tax write-offs from the West German government, Krupp had spent some $40 million in plant rebuilding by 1955. Since 1954, the firm has been making...