Word: gyms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...handsome, new North Shore suburb, June Courington was outraged by a homebuilder's plan to sell roughly one-fifth of an adjacent 51-home development to Negroes. That night her husband joined 600-odd other homeowners in a march on the town board meeting in the grade school gym. There an angry 1½-hour session proved that the problem of integrated housing can be as grim in northern suburbia as anywhere south of the Mason-Dixon line...
...Robert Middleton were smooth and competent as the killers, and so was Ray Walston as the frightened owner of the lunchroom in which the killers reveal their plot. Beyond the brief Hemingway dialogue, the show was distinguished only by the Swedish fighter. In a flashback to a Chicago gym, where he was coached in the art of taking a dive, and in the scene from the original, in which he decided that he is "through with all that running" from death, the part of Ole Andreson was naturally and credibly managed by Amateur Actor Ingemar Johansson, world's heavyweight...
Speaking to a crowd of 1000 in the Amherst College gym, MacLeish described Dickinson as "the town's greatest citizen" and her poems as "the touchstones of all touchstones...
Splendidly displayed in the "Jungle-gym" designed by George Nelson, U.S. art at the Moscow exhibition is drawing upward of 20,000 people a day. Guards have a hard time keeping the crowd moving, not because people are impressed by the show so much as because puzzlement halts them. Jackson Pollock's drip picture called Cathedral stops visitors cold. "Where is the cathedral?" they ask. Andrew Wyeth's Children's Doctor and Edward Hooper's stark, vivid Lighthouse at Two Lights are the standout favorites. Among the sculptures on display, Gaston Lachaise's hugely curvaceous...
...brothers, his sister, his brother's fiancee and his own fiancee of five years' standing-in-waiting, Birgit Lundgren, a comely and compact brunette of 23. With Birgit on his mighty right arm, Johansson even made occasional forays into the nightclub whirl of Manhattan. In the gym Johansson worked hard on the bags, but treated his sparring partners with loving consideration. None seemed worthy of his right hand, and nobody even saw it in action. Self-appointed experts began to doubt that it had ever existed. JOHANSSON TALKS A GOOD FIGHT, sneered the New York World-Telegram...