Word: flopping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gardner-Sinatra burlesque. This time the triangle revolved around some of Hollywood's shiniest showpieces. The husband: Dartmouth man Walter Wanger (rhymes with Grainger), 57, noted producer (Stagecoach, Algiers) and former Academy Award president. Walter Wanger had been on the financial skids since his monumental flop, Joan of Arc; after another failure he went into bankruptcy for $175,000. But he was still a man whose name stood for respectability, culture and the intellectual values at the crossroads of Sunset and Vine. The wife: Actress Joan Bennett, 41, beauteous screen grandmother and one of Hollywood's prime exhibits...
Before last week's game with Oregon State, Stanford in victory was more than a sport-page enigma. It was a statistical flop: fifth in the conference in rushing, fourth in total offensive, seventh in ground defense, second in passing. But Stanford had won eight straight games and it was pounding down the track, headed for the Rose Bowl again. Tyro Taylor, 31, who violates every tradition of the coaching trade by predicting victory for his team before every game, shrugs off the inevitable post-game question with, "Damned if I can explain...
...Casablanca, mobs rushed the polling places, and heaved paving blocks. Before election day was over, six Moroccans were dead from police bullets, the polling places were deserted, the election was a flop, and the French moved in Senegalese troops to seal off the native quarter...
...usual riot was the usual flop. The presence of a great many policemen and Yard cops proved a definite dampening influence...
...strength of The Man Within (it was a flop in the U.S., where it sold only 2,575 copies), Greene convinced the chairman of Heinemann's that a promising novelist should not be wasting his energies in the Times letters department, and got the publisher to subsidize him for three years. Greene's next two novels (The Name of Action, Rumour at Nightfall) must have made his publishers think twice about their investment. Both were murkily intense, heavily plotted melodramas that Greene has since tried hard to forget. Orient Express (1932) made the publishers feel better. A tightly...