Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such loyalty to the saddle-sore traditions of the old West is not the sort of thing Businessman Gruber intends to push past the end of a trend. For he still figures he can write anything that the public is willing to buy. Says he: "Science fiction has been gaining, and if it ever gains enough, I'll switch...
...manager of St. Louis' American Theater (36 years) and outdoor Municipal Opera (28 years), former president of the Legitimate Independent Theaters of North America; of cancer; in St. Louis. Beisman ran the huge, concrete "Muny" Opera like a ballpark, became an expert on what Variety calls the ozoning end of show business. As manager of the American Theater, Beisman was widely recognized for keeping non-Broadway U.S. theater alive...
...introduction day alone, and Pontiac reported sales and confirmed orders of more than 20,500 during the car's first three days on the market. Buoyed by orders for 72,400 Ramblers so far this year, American Motors made plans to turn out 100,000 Ramblers by the end of December, almost double the total turned out in the same period last year...
...animals, all the living roots that heaven planted in the earth. Poison heaven at its roots, and the tree will wither and die. The stars will go out, and heaven will be destroyed." And the hero concludes: "Who knows? If man begins by saving the elephants, he may end by saving himself...
...this, as in the other three stories (also about waifs and strays), Author Capote has retained sentiment without permitting himself schmalz, achieved pity without falling into self-pity. Over whatever is sordid falls his crisp, clean prose. At the end of Breakfast, Holly's whereabouts are unknown and she may even be dead and "travelin' through the pastures of the sky." But her fate is really written in her dialogue. Bad little good girls like Holly Golightly never die; they go to Broadway, where Julie Harris plays them...