Word: floppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Constitutional Flop. In far-off London, the House of Commons showed its alarm. Nigeria, more than twice the size of California and rich in palm oil, tin and perhaps uranium, is Britain's most populous (30 million) colony. Under a federal constitution promulgated in 1951, it seemed to be driving hard towards self-government, along the same boisterous lines as its rival-neighbor, Prime Minister Nkrumah's Gold Coast (TIME, Feb. 9). Yet last week the Colonial Office admitted that the constitution was a flop, and Nigeria...
...fingernail grip on Broadway in the Theatre Guild's Garrick Gaieties, and was seen briefly in a 1931 flop called Company's Coming. But Broadway, like everything else, was sliding into the Depression. Drawing on all her confidence and energy, Ros got a job with Wee & Leventhal, who operated a cut-rate theatrical circuit covering such Broadway outposts as Brooklyn, Newark and Philadelphia. Her salary was $45 a week, but she more than doubled it by playing better pinochle than Producer Leventhal on their inter-city train rides...
...Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra. Ros felt that she had to agree, but told her good friend Loretta Young: "I can't imagine what I'm doing in this picture-it's all hate!" Mourning Becomes Electra proved an even bigger financial flop than Sister Kenny. These disasters steeled Ros's determination to return to the stage. While feverishly reading playscripts, she contributed to her movie decline with The Velvet Touch, Tell It to the Judge, and Woman of Distinction (in which she was cast as a TIME cover girl-see Publisher...
...magazine budded into a new magazine, e.g., when one of the departments in Chemical Engineering grew too big, it became Food Engineering. Under Jay McGraw, the company made its only attempt-with Science Illustrated-to step out of the trade into the general circulation field. It was a resounding flop. Between 1945-47, the new magazine lost upwards of $2,000,000. It was beginning to find itself, when Jay McGraw folded it to get ready for the postwar depression mistakenly predicted by his economists...
...Japanese have worked hard at democracy, and the web, Author Gibney believes, has been sharply strained. But he is not at all sure that it will soon be torn apart. Communism in Japan is a flop, but the overriding factor in Japan's position today is its proximity and vulnerability to Communist military power. What comfort the Japanese can feel comes from U.S. friendship. It is here that Five Gentlemen becomes an important as well as an illuminating study. Gibney came to like and respect the Japanese. His book explains why the five gentlemen and their 85 million countrymen...