Word: deadly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they ever tell you o' Earl Long is dead," cracked a Louisiana politico, "you just ask them to call a Governors' race. If Earl don't git up an' run, he's dead sure enough...
...Today show at the NBC studios. Ordinarily, punctual Don Quarles was on hand when his car rolled up; this time Mason settled down to wait. Then he noticed the morning newspaper still lying on the doorstep. Walking uncertainly into the quiet house, he found Donald Aubrey Quarles, 64, dead in his bed of a heart attack...
...Sultan of Johore is 64-year-old Ismail, whose mother was one of Sir Ibrahim's original four Malay wives. But Ismail can rule for only a few weeks in the semi-autocratic fashion of his dead father. Next month Johore will elect an Executive Council headed by a Prime Minister, and the Sultan will become a purely constitutional figurehead. The old days are gone, and the old ways are dying, but even the most nationalist opponents of the late, crotchety Sultan experienced a sense of loss. Said one: "He was Malaya's grand old man. His service...
...debut last week, Osborne took out after the reviewers with Pelham's help. "Not one daily newspaper critic has the intellectual equipment to assess my work," thundered Osborne in Pelham-sponsored interviews. "They were professional assassins." Despite the assassins, The World of Paul Slickey was not yet dead...
Repertory Boston, so recently given up for dead, is demonstrating not only life but considerable liveliness in presenting the English-language premiere of Bert Brecht's "episodes from the history of the landowner, Puntila, and his hired man, Matti." Its official opening, scheduled for Tuesday, was postponed until tonight because of an injury to a cast member; at Tuesday night's preview Puntila appeared as an odd, erratic, interesting, annoying, basically refractory and intractable script, worth, in its Wilbur incarnation, more than many considerably smoother enterprises...