Word: ducks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Time. But, reasoned G.O.P. strategists, why be blamed for killing off Acheson when a good many Democrats were working to the same end? Some lame-duck Democratic casualties had already made it plain to Harry Truman that Acheson had hurt their party badly. In the House there was a small rear-guard defense by a loyal handful ("He and his accomplishments will live in history long after the names of his detractors are forgotten," said Missouri's 34-year-old Congressman Richard Boiling, an ex-G.L), but in the Senate, not one Democrat rose last week to defend...
Compensation. Near Long Beach, Calif., Harold Hartigan went duck hunting in Anaheim Slough, bagged a sea bass stranded by the tide; Don Jasiewicz went fishing for sea bass, snagged a duck that tried to snatch his bait...
Onstage. In such aimless chantings Congress did not get much work done. Dixiecrats successfully carried off a filibuster which killed the Alaska and Hawaii statehood bills for this session. The bills had been at the top of Mr. Truman's legislative list for the lame-duck session...
...theater and nightclubs, Durante was never a top smash in either radio or movies (see CINEMA) . It now seems clear that TV was invented, in part at least, as a frame for his special talents. The dynamic Durante personality, a sort of mixture of W. C. Fields and Donald Duck, triumphs over old routines and standard jokes. In an opera cloak and top hat, he achieves a Chaplinesque dignity as he insists that Tannhäuser is by Puccini, and in his shocked horror at an ill-bred friend who, says Durante in moral indignation, "always behaved like a gentleman...
Cheered by talk of an early end to the Korean war and fading chances for the excess profits tax in the lame-duck session of Congress (see above), the Dow-Jones industrials rose to 235.47 (up 4.8 points in a week), the highest since the autumn of 1930. The rails rose to 71.06, highest since 1931. The New York Herald Tribune's closely watched average of 100 stocks finally broke through its 1946 bull market high of 137.45, and reached 137.63, also the highest since...