Word: hards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Trying too Hard...
Barclay feels all the team needs is a little confidence. "They're trying too hard," he explains. "If they didn't have that losing streak on their back, they'd relax. But now when they go into a game and get a couple of bad breaks, they start pressing...
...Snake Pit. Hollywood's hard, honest look at mental illness, with a chillingly good performance by Olivia de Havilland (TIME...
...finer type raised chiefly in Australia and used in worsteds. Wool men feared that the surplus would take 13 years to work off and prices would tumble. Demand did fall for the poorer wool used in making soft fabrics, which fewer & fewer buyers wanted. But everyone wanted hard worsteds. The unexpected demand cleaned out the fine-wool stockpile (but left the U.S. with a stockpile of low-grade wool) and caused demand to run far ahead of supply...
Died. Herbert Stothart, 64, top-ranking composer of M-G-M cinemusical scores (Rose Marie, May time); of a heart ailment; in Los Angeles. A onetime collaborator with Franz Lehar, Rudolph Friml and George Gershwin, Stothart won the 1939 Academy Award for his sprightly, hard-to-forget score for The Wizard...