Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heat off his school by pointing his finger elsewhere-a move now known in amateur circles as "the Santee Gambit." "I was offered large sums of money and far more per month to enter other schools," said Loudd. "But I came to U.C.L.A. because I felt they were fair in what they were doing for all athletes. California offered me $1,600 cash and $50 over and above the allotted $75 permitted by the conference. U.S.C. arranged special entrance examinations for me to get in. They offered to place money in a bank account in my name ... In addition they...
...networks are becoming the new money-heavy angels of the Broadway stage. CBS, sole backer of the smash-hit musical My Fair Lady, expects to net an additional $5,000,000 from the recorded music of the show, now on the market under the Columbia label. NBC, which has done well from its investment in Call Me Madam, Me and Juliet, Fanny and the current Alfred Lunt-Lynn Fontanne hit, The Great Sebastians, will put up the money for a new musical, Jack and the Beanstalk, written by Helen Deutsch and Jerry Livingston. NBC also promised one novelty: before...
...more prosperous or pleasing season. At times, during 1955-56, even the more contained critics chose their words like poets -or like pressagents. Where, all too often in years gone by, the jejune was bustin' out all over, this season had a great deal of flavor, and a fair amount of body as well. Even so late as April, when playwriting usually sports its lightest-weight and most ill-fitting clothes, plays still looked neat or showed substance...
...Merit, on Broadway, came in most sizes and shapes. In My Fair Lady, music had charms to please the most civilized breast; gilding Pygmalion, My Fair Lady made a dazzling Mayfair lady of Shaw's guttersnipe. The season's comedies had everything from the faint fine laughter of the eyes to sheer guffawing rock and roll. There was rewarding drama as well as melodrama, and in The Diary of Anne Frank, which won seven awards (including the Pulitzer and Critics' Circle), sound sentiment...
...training cycle's end, Andy marries Susan and gets picked as a cadreman to train incoming recruits. "I'm a hard man but a fair one," he tells them. "If you screw it up, your behinds are grass, and Sergeant Sheaffer is the lawnmower...