Word: dog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clocker Spanielle joined his fellows at the dog track yesterday. After losing heavily on John J. Jr. and Spider Rock at Buffolk Downs, the sage decided to try his luck with the greyhounds of Raynham Park...
Cost-of-living pay boosts are as important in 1955 employment contracts as were yellow-dog agreements in 1905. They even influence minimum wage laws. If Secretary of Labor James Mitchell wins congressional favor for his $.90 an hour minimum wage, the increase would just offset the inflation during the five years since $.75 became standard. In fact, booming prices have washed out every minimum wage gain since the original Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, which set wages at $.40 an hour...
...credit to the new society. Noel Coward's witty, fast-moving script was well-directed by Wink Neilson; and Barbara Bisco, Tina Cowley, Jim Rieger, Alison Mumford and Nick Strater all turned in well above average performances. Miss Mumford's transformation from a dignified British matron into a dog was the high point of the evening, and the quick exchange of patter among the members of her household never ceased to be amusing. It is fortunate that the Coward play closed the program, because it showed that the Leverett House group is capable of providing good entertainment within modest limits...
Then all at once something very peculiar happens. A guy comes up to him and wants to know would he like to make five bucks. For what, Marty asks. The guy says, for taking a "dog" home: "I got stuck on a blind date." Marty is horrified. "You just can't walk off on a girl like that!" he gasps. The guy shrugs and pedals off and somebody else gets the fin, but the girl (Betsy Blair) won't have any part of this deal. She goes out on the fire escape and cries. Marty goes out after...
...asks her to dance. "You're not such a dog as you think you are!" he says, trying to sound enthusiastic. They get talking and then they go for a walk. All at once they're both feeling all full of beautiful colors and Marty starts telling her things he never told anybody before -hardly even himself-about the war and the awful time after he came home. He can't stop talking and people are looking at them but neither of them notices until all at once in the craziest place right beside a big empty...