Word: elevens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...process. Laid in a turn-of-the-century Manhattan tenement, The Rope Dancers is a stubbornly harsh story of a lacerated family. Hard-working Margaret Hyland is a rigid, arrogant, unappeasably bitter woman with a lazy, feckless would-be writer of a husband (Art Carney) and an eleven-year-old daughter born with six fingers on one hand. Beyond having brought the girl up to feel like someone with two heads, and having kept her away from school and other children, Margaret - while flaunting her contempt for her husband - does not know how to convey her love to her child...
AVIATION Boeing's New Jet United Air Lines, the nation's second-largest carrier (first: American Airlines), took another step into the jet age. Last week it ordered ten Douglas DC-8 long-range and eleven new-type, Boeing 720 medium-range jet aircraft to be delivered in 1960. Total cost: $100 million, to be added to the $175 million worth of DC-8s ordered for delivery in 1959. To finance the new jet order, United got an additional $100 million in credit from a syndicate of 36 banks headed by Manhattan's First National City Bank...
Tuesday is fun-and-games day in the nation's 41 million TV parlors, with no fewer than eleven quiz shows in about as many hours. Best of the big batch is a witty, unpretentious panel quiz on CBS called To Tell the Truth (9 p.m., E.S.T.), which came to television almost a year ago from the well-stocked cupboard of Goodson-Todman,* purveyors of What's My Line...
...seems quite as canned as Sinatra's; it is shot without an audience and without any attempt to simulate a live show. The result recalls the half-hour musical shorts that Hollywood used to manufacture as filler for movie houses. One trade report says that Sinatra ground out eleven of his shows in 15 days. They look that...
...1930s, captained his home-town East Aurora polo team in international matches. Putting up $100,000 in 1939 to launch the Contemporary Room, "Shorty" Knox, who had previously boasted little more than one lone Utrillo, was soon head over heels in love with modern art. In the last eleven years, Yaleman ('20) Knox has donated 75 paintings and sculptures, of which more than half are products of the current decade...