Word: davide
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before the court were the combined cases of 1) New York Trashmonger Samuel Roth, convicted (and sentenced to five years in prison and fined $5,000) for violating federal law by mailing obscene circulars and an obscene book (American Aphrodite), and 2) Los Angeles Mail-Order Salesman David Alberts, convicted (and sentenced to 60 days in prison, fined $500 and placed on probation for two years) under a California statute for "lewdly keeping for sale" and advertising indecent books (e.g., Sword of Desire, She Made It Pay). In the Roth case, the major question was whether the U.S. law abridged...
...week's wage increase will amount to 21? an hour, boost the corporation's annual labor costs by $87 million to $1,543,000,-ooo, which is a record high. But labor refused to have the price hike laid at its door. Said United Steelworkers' President David J. McDonald: "Even without raising prices and without obtaining greatest output per man-hour, the corporation is in a position to increase its net profit from $348.1 million in 1956 to $437 million in 1957." The steel industry, charged Dave McDonald, is trying to make the union a "scapegoat...
...pardonably proud of the Dickensian way he had come; he had read David Copper field 101 times. The son of Scotch-Irish immigrants, Weir quit school at 15 to support his widowed mother, worked as a $3-a-week office boy for a Pittsburgh wire company, later said he did "not consider it a handicap for a boy in his teens to have to go to work. Being forced to earn one's living strengthens character, equips for bigger battles." By 1905 Weir was manager of a U.S. Steel Corp. plant; at 30 he bought a wheezing West Virginia...
...David Pressman's direction was adequate, though he let some of the cast pace their lines too slowly; and there were other signs of insufficient rehearsal time. E. G. Marshall, as the Rev. Anderson, gave us another example of his skill in a character-type role. Felicia Montealegre, as his wife, did her captivating best with an absurdly implausible role. Kevin McCarthy was exuberantly athletic and flery in the leading role of the brash and blasphemous wayward son Dick Dudgeon. Martyn Green relished his brief appearance in act three as the sly General Burgoyne; and Muriel Berkson, Edward Finnegan...
Elimination play will be scheduled for men's and women's singles and doubles, and in mixed doubles, under the direction of Alfred David...