Word: floppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...styled artists' colony. Just in back of Beacon Hill is Scollay Square which is not, anyone will tell you, what it used to be. After the war there weren't as many sailors, and then one Thursday night the Crawford House burned down, and Boston lost its best known flop house. Now the Old Howard has shut down, where Jenny Lind once sang and Rose La Rose more recently appeared. Boston still has an all night movie house, the Rialto Theatre, which opens and shuts sporadically on Bowdoin Square...
...Nearly all observers had predicted that the South, with the exception of Florida, would return to the Democrats. A States Rights ticket headed by former Internal Revenue Commissioner T. Coleman Andrews was expected to cut significantly into Eisenhower's vote. But the third-party movement was a complete flop. Southern Negroes, on the other hand, turned strongly toward Eisenhower. Four Negro districts in Richmond had gone more than five to one for Stevenson in 1952; this time they stood more than two to one for Ike. In Atlanta, Negroes voted about four to one for Eisenhower. Negroes helped Eisenhower...
...campaign ("Elated," said Adlai; "We are both very happy," said Estes), both pitched hard for the farm vote.† In language as plain as a silo on the skyline, Kefauver told a farmer-dominated audience of 5,000 that the Eisenhower-Benson farm program has been "one big flop from beginning to end." Stevenson then took over to charge Ike and the G.O.P. with "callous political perfidy," "self-righteous hypocrisy," "broken promises," and "duplicity" in dealing with the farm problem. Ike, he said, has been guilty of "transparent hypocrisy" or "just doesn't know what's going...
...week. It is an ordeal that has yielded severe criticisms for such famed prima donnas as Melba. Sembrich, Nordica and Farrar, and conceivably could be a bitter experience for her as well. But Callas has faced bitter experiences before and triumphantly survived them. "People would like to see me flop, just once," she admits. "Well, I can't and I won't. I will never give any satisfaction to my enemies...
...MEMOIRS OF A CROSS-EYED MAN, by James Wellard (246 pp.; St. Martin's Press: $3). Hulking British Schoolmaster Thomas Ashe was a flop as a ladies' man, and knew it. His nose was bulbous, his mustache like a thicket, and his eyes were crossed. But when he is crowding 49, they suddenly blaze with fresh fervor at the sight of an 18-year-old ballerina named Shala Delisle. He sees in her "the meaning and import of my life, my un-climbed peak, my terra incognita, my uncharted sea, my route to the Blessed Isles." Ignited with...