Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Every Happy Day. Not even Communist historians are sure how Lenin's regime managed to survive the invasion by allied armies from all sides, the civil war, the total economic chaos resulting from Lenin's belief that "any cook can run a state." He had made literally no plans for governing. He told his Bolshevik high command, "Try to nationalize the banks, and then see what to do next. We'll learn from experience...
Died. Ben Hecht, 70, playwright and screenwriter, a onetime Chicago newsman who, with the late Charles MacArthur, immortalized the seedy Galahads of Cook County pressrooms with his rowdy 1928 valentine, The Front Page, thereafter indulged his bent for vinegarish sentiment in maudlin novels and Zionist pamphleteering, but plied a true trade as one of Hollywood's most highly paid ($5,000 a week, even in the 1930s) and accomplished script doctors, turning out dozens of literate originals, such as The Scoundrel (also with MacArthur) and Crime Without Passion, adaptations ranging from Wuthering Heights to A Farewell to Arms...
...city-owned football field to hear Evangelist Billy Graham. Exclaimed he: "What a moment and what an hour in Birmingham!" It was certainly that-far different from another Sunday, only seven months before, when a dynamite blast at a Negro church killed four little girls. Said Arthur P. Cook, white publisher of three local weeklies, about the Graham meeting: "It is the greatest thing that has happened to Birmingham." And if it could happen in Birmingham, it could happen anywhere-a fact of which the debating Senators might take notice...
Divorced. Walter Samuel Johnson, 79, multimillionaire San Francisco lumberman who gave $2,000,000 in 1959 to restore the city's historic Palace of Fine Arts; and Pauline Cook Johnson, 57, his third wife; in a double decree (she won her divorce on the ground of cruelty, he won his on cruelty and adultery); after 27 years of marriage, no children; in San Francisco, after six years of litigation and an 85-day trial that cost Johnson more than $3,000,000 in settlement, fees and court costs...
...sensitive search for meaning in their drab lives. Fred Willkie does a particularly fine job as Jake, a young garbage collector. Joel DeMott's performance as the waitress is fulled with nuance and her accent doesn't detract from her acting. Diane Kagan, who plays Gloria, one of the cooks, is less successful with the New York vulgar tongue, but Jaye Schulman as Lily, the other cook, is often compelling. William Roberts and Peter McKenzie are perhaps hurt more by the script than lack of effort. While both plays would profit from editing, each deserves an audience...