Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Judas, like all enemies of the party, is a psychopath, in contrast to the faithful apostles-good Equity men all, who still stick to the stuff they wrote in the old Group Theater and WPA days. Judas crops up again (in The Upraised Pinion) as a dim fellow with a remarkable physical resemblance to Whittaker Chambers, who sells out the party for $24 a day to an FBI smoothie with gold cuff links...
...Owner Rex Ellsworth pointed out, Swaps never reached top speed; a flared-up foot injury might have caused a slowdown. The injury will require surgery; Swaps will probably be out of racing until December. But Swaps's misfortunes did not dim Nashua's victory, which raised his earnings for Owner William Woodward Jr. to $882,565. Said triumphant Old Master Arcaro, who had ridden one of the shrewdest races of his 24 years in the saddle: "Nashua did everything that Mr. Fitz and I planned...
...John Marshall Jacobs of Phoenix, Ariz., one of the U.S. farmers just back from a Soviet tour, took a dim view of the future of religion in Russia. "On one occasion in Moscow," he told a reporter, "our interpreter pointed out a little domed church in the slum section, an area slated for razing and new housing projects. 'There's a so-called church,' said the interpreter. 'Nobody goes there but a few old people...
Guide to Stardom. To program listings (printed in large type, thus easily read by TV's dim light), TV Guide adds a light diet of gossip ("Sheree North was tossed off a coast-to-coast interview program when she arrived sans makeup when the show was one-third over.") and short features on TV performers. But it is neither a fan magazine nor a catchall for pressagents' puffs. Networks often do not like what TV Guide says about their shows, but they respect...
...contributes heavily-through Howdy Doody, Pinky Lee, et al. -to the high decibel nonsense that TV calls "children's programs." indulged last week in a novel, if mild, experiment in selfcriticism. It made public a report of its Children's Program Review Committee, which took a generally dim view of the network's kid shows...