Word: gold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turned in by James Matisoff as Sir Epicure Mammon; he creeps about the stage, delivering his passionate outbursts, alternately joyful and despondent, and always excellent. He was ably supported by Nathan Douthit--with amazing grimaces and thunderous orations, and Carl Morgan--the stomach-stroking pastor with a thirst for gold...
...reelection. Five of these are from the South and the other six--Kennedy, Symington, Mansfield, Chavez, Pastore, and Jackson--seem reasonably sure of reelection. Democrats will probably unseat a few Republican incumbents;--in Arizona, for instance, Governor Ernest MacFarland will likely rid the senate of Barry Gold-water...
...Schoenmen won a $5.50 meal ticket from Elsie's. Other winners were Bruce Denny-Brown '60, four free haircuts from Harvard Barber Shop; John Harte '61, two free LP records from The Turntable; John S. Hammond '59, free cleaning of a suit every week until Christmas vacation from the Gold Coast and Morris Kesselman of Brookline, a 4x5 in. color transparency from Ferranti-Dege...
This modern-day morality tale of three men down and out in Mexico searching for gold in the remotest hinterlands might be classified as picaresque and episodic, because it depends on external events and travel through the desert to give unity to the human drama which is at the center. Director John Huston creates a marvelously realistic atmosphere. His Mexican lore is superb, every minor detail of dress and speech and technique rings true without the costumed grandiosity that Hollywood usually purveys as local color. He does not give us pale demigods or villains with waxed black mustaches; the three...
Died. Mrs. Martha ("Mattie") Louise Munger Black, 91, sharp-witted onetime Tory member of Canada's Parliament, hard cussin' ("I'm no lady"), Chicago-born "first lady of the Yukon," who took off for the Klondike gold fields in 1898, prospected, managed a sawmill, was elected an M.P. from the Yukon in 1935; after long illness; in Whitehorse, Yukon...