Word: corners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like the sturdy Vermont farmhouse which gave it its title, The Southwest Corner has many more strengths than weaknesses. John Cecil Holm has created a thoughtful framework out of light material. His rather effective come tragedy is due almost entirely to sharply chiseled characterizations. For dramatically, the playwright's adaptation of Milder Walker's novel is somewhat shaky. His arrangement of ideas and characters is less clear-cut than her original fashioning of them. But masterful acting by a woman, not the heroine, buttresses this one weak timber, and makes The Southwest Corner a skillfully executed play...
...millions of Americans might be asking each other what the jury would do; we kept asking ourselves what the Times would do . . . Finally the decisive hour struck . . . All the other gazettes blared the news of the verdict; our special suspense ended when our eyes reached the lower left-hand corner of the Times's Page One: whatever anguish he must endure in life, Dr. Sheppard had made...
...also for the housewives, the children and the families . . . It should help to transform coexisting people into neighbors and to have the Americans walking among us instead of merely walking beside us . . . Our advertising section is another way of showing you that you can live very comfortably without the corner drugstore...
...corner of Hurn Airport, near Britain's south coast, stand six black-painted hangars belonging to Vickers Ltd. Inside are planes abuilding that pose the biggest threat to U.S. domination of the world's transport airlanes. The planes are Vickers Viscounts, 48 place, 320-m.p.h. airliners with four turboprop engines. A fortnight ago the first Viscount of a 22-plane order for Trans-Canada Airlines flew across the Atlantic to Montreal. Last week another new turboprop took off for the other end of the world, one of a six-plane order for Trans-Australia Airlines which the company...
...attempt to extort $250,000 from 24 of Dallas' leading Jewish families. Police Reporter McCormick has no intention of slowing down. Says he: "There ain't no such thing as the biggest moment in the newspaper business. The real big one is still around the corner...