Word: facings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dame Edith Sitwell, 72, gave a poetry recital at Edinburgh. Part of the audience could not make out what she was saying; someone politely said so. "Get a hearing aid." said Dame Edith, "I am not going to shout." Someone else complained that her notes were obscuring her face. "You won't like it if you do see it," she promised. Who did she think she was? "The reason I am thought eccentric is that I won't be taught my job by a lot of pipsqueaks. I will not allow people to bore me. Nobody has ever...
...Throwing his fork ball with its usual effect, cold-eyed Reliever Elroy Face of the Pittsburgh Pirates stopped a rally in the eighth, but gave up two runs in the ninth to lose to the Dodgers, 5-4, dropped his first game since May 30, 1958, and snapped a 22-game winning streak. Cracked Face, as he regarded his 17-1 record: "Well, Walter Johnson lost...
...through a partial screening of one Adventure episode. It was quickly apparent that all the shooting had been done around Hollywood, not Hawaii. Hero Gardner McKay, who has had more advance publicity than most established stars, proved himself a performer with all the animation of a monkeypod; his face, said one reporter, looked "like a death mask of Gary Cooper." The plot line spun itself out as the story of Adam Troy, Korean war veteran, who dreams of Texas while piloting his schooner Tiki past such hazards as a pigeon-breasted murderess peddling a hot black pearl. The Tiki...
...Playwriting," says Moss Hart, "like begging in India, is an honorable but humbling profession." On the face of it, Playwright Hart has little to be humble about. As co-author of such comedy classics as The Man Who Came to Dinner and You Can't Take It with You, as librettist of Lady in the Dark and director of My Fair Lady, he will hold top billing in the American popular theater for a long time to come. But he has not had a play of his own on Broadway since the earnest, charming Climate of Eden...
...field was a small, alien object: a metal sphere blazoned with the hammer and sickle of the Soviet Union. Perhaps no one will ever know what happened when it hit. It may have dug an invisibly small crater among the natural meteor craters on the moon's scarred face. Perhaps it splashed a brief fountain of dust. Whatever it did, the moon could no longer serve as a symbol of unreachability. Man had sent an object from the earth and pitted its virgin surface...