Word: curiousities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lawyer Fitzgerald was worth questioning in his own right, but he was also on the spot because the McClellan committee has grown more and more curious about the small army of legal eagles who defend, protect, advise and counsel the Teamsters. In all they total 120-so many that they even have an organization of their own: the National Conference of Teamster Lawyers, which meets periodically, discusses such items as the legal ramifications of hot cargoes, NLRB decisions, right-to-work laws and at its latest session last month in California a timely new topic: "Hints to the union attorney...
...curious to see Agatha Christie's mystery The Mousetrap, because it is still running in London after six years and holds the all-time record for commercial longevity. It is a fairly neat and entertaining piece of construction, though the characters are all clear stereotypes. But it certainly ranks lower than her Witness for the Prosecution...
This early game was known as the "Boston game," a sort of cross between rugby and a free-for-all. A curious feature was that a player could run and throw or pass the ball only if he were being pursued by an opponent. When the opposing player gave up pursuit he called out to the runner, who had to stop and kick the ball...
...giant $133 million motel-like complex of aluminum and glass was ready at last. Into the U.S. Air Force Academy marched 1,148 cadets to face a tough, four-year program with the broadest curriculum yet devised for future U.S. military leaders. For news of their first days, their curious customs, and lingo as well, see EDUCATION, Home of the Doolies...
...short while they prosper, but with the coming of the rains their customers lose interest in shoeshines. Close to starvation, the boy and his sister are accidentally separated; from there the film wanders to an ending that, for all its melodramatic sentimentality, fits perfectly into the picture's curious blend of gutter reality and fairy-tale dreaminess...