Word: herman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than a year, the big & little guns of the South have been lobbing ominous shells in the direction of the U.S. Supreme Court. Said Georgia's Governor Herman Talmadge: "As long as I am governor, Negroes will not be admitted to white schools." Popped Grand Dragon Bill Hendrix of the Ku Klux Klan: if segregation is abolished, "the American Confederate Army" will march in armed rebellion. Cried South Carolina's Governor Jimmy Byrnes: "South Carolina will not, now nor for some years to come, mix white and colored children in our schools. If the court changes what...
...true bookseller's delight was Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny, first published in March 1951. Never off the bestseller list, and mostly at the top, its sales in all editions reached 1,000,000. The other leaders-Costain, Keyes, Ferber, Du Maurier-moved along predictable roads, leaving their familiar footprints without increasing or diminishing their reputations. John Steinbeck's East of Eden was not predictable, but its loose, woolly yarn on good & evil, featuring a sensational and improbable prostitute, dazzled a lot of readers and critics...
...Caine Mutiny, Herman Wouk The Silver Chalice, Thomas Costain East of Eden, John Steinbeck Giant, Edna Ferber Steamboat Gothic, Frances Parkinson Keyes My Cousin Rachel, Daphne du Maurier
...Herman M. Perkins Jr. of Catonsville, Md. (pop. 16,000) on Streetcar: "It is a good thing we didn't have a money-back guarantee on this. We had more walkouts than on any picture in a long while. Personally, I wouldn't walk around the corner to see it and evidently that is what most of the patrons thought about...
...fail to notice in any shape or form, tasteful or otherwise, the previously mentioned elements of musicals, except briefly touching on the directorial work, is beyond me. The fact that there are eight dances in this show, colorful sets, etc. has not been properly conveyed to your reading public. Herman E. Krawitz...