Word: hit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gargle for a week or two. He's been very good." In a Piccadilly bar, Behan hoisted just one wee nip and bellowed: "To success!" Clinking glasses with him, Beatrice responded: "Success to abstinence!" Then Behan lumbered off to the theater to catch a performance ..of his London hit, The Hostage. At play's end, to cries of "Author!" he took the stage, smiled with clear-eyed modesty, drew a big hand by saying: "I'm absolutely sober...
...onto an upper-story windowsill). On TV, the Eyes shoot the joint up like maniacs, or "they all throw their revolvers away and use their fists and are too damn smart. A good Private Eye doesn't get in trouble-he doesn't get hit with surprises. If you do a decent job, you don't have violence." In 13 years of sleuthing, says 41-year-old Investigator Lipsett, he has been involved in only one serious scrape...
...scene has changed from the gloomy digs he used to occupy with his wife and two children in a house he got rent-free from his in-laws. Recently elected an associate of the august Royal Academy, and sporting a new beard, Bratby has come up in the world. Hit, new background is his own rambling, Victorian house, with cracked swimming pool, in London's Blackheath district. But the exuberant pictures of the disorderly, newspaper-strewn interiors and the sunflower-choked garden (often with the face of a Bratby child peering through the stalks) show that Bratby is still...
...successful pairing of Igor Stravinsky's austerely stylized Oedipus Rex and Carl Orff's lightly lyrical Carmina Burana, both conducted by Leopold Stokowski. The audience took to the double feature so enthusiastically that an additional performance was scheduled for last week. The season's second big hit: a superb production of Mozart's crystalline comic masterwork, Cosi Fan Tutte. Vienna-born Director Rudel, 38, is also offering the standards-Madame Butterfly, Boheme...
Enticed by U.S. corn-price supports that place no limit whatever on acreage, U.S. farmers have so expanded their corn plantings that this year's harvest will hit 4.4 billion bu., 17% more than in record 1958. Iowa, the No. 1 corn state, expects an 827-million-bu. harvest, up from the record 669 million last year. Illinois, No. 2, anticipates 696 million bu., up from 599 million. Even No. 3. Minnesota, looks for 360 million bu., an increase of 15% over last year, despite a severe drought...