Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Show business is the common-and uncommonly interesting-denominator of the immortal and the merely diverting, the sublime and the corny, the Greek amphitheater and the burlesque runway. It includes Bernard Shaw and the TV gag writer, Laurence Olivier and the Las Vegas chorus girl -as well as their audiences. TIME'S new section will report "Show Biz" in all its phases. It will include news, trends and personalities of movies, theater, television, nightclubs, pop music. It will report on the more offbeat corners such as carnivals and beauty contests. And it will cover the vast supporting cast...
Valavanis, who was vacationing in Greece at the time of his death, was found shot in his tent near Mt. Olympus. It was reported that Valavanis was killed by an officer who had deserted from the Greek army...
...office, the Navy deployed, the lead battalion of Marines on the Beirut beaches. The Sixth Fleet's 60,000-ton supercarrier Saratoga and support carrier Wasp, with 40-ship escort, were riding offshore. Reinforcements, including the guided-missile cruiser Boston and attack carrier Essex, were steaming up from Greek waters. Sweeps of AD Skyraider and A4D Skyhawk bombers, plus F8U Crusader interceptors, were heading out over Lebanon and Jordan. Burke's follow-through: in Lebanon a second Marine battalion landed, then a third. Back across the Atlantic the carrier Antietam loaded up 1,000 more Marines, assault helicopters...
...They would be wise to do away at once with this altogether too jarring bit of costuming. In the penultimate scene, they make Hiram Sherman, as Paulina's steward, treat his lengthy account of off-stage doings as though he were supposed to be burlesquing the Messenger of ancient Greek drama. This is a questionable interpretation, although admittedly it does get plenty of laughs...
Died. Archbishop Michael. 66, head of the Greek Orthodox Church in North and South America, spiritual leader of more than 1,000,000 people of Greek descent in the Western Hemisphere; after an intestinal operation; in Manhattan...