Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other fields, John L Lewis was hit by coronary thrombosis last September. The Aga Khan had a heart attack last February. Comedian Eddie Cantor, since his attack in 1952, has filmed 39 television programs and taped 260 radio shows. However, Cantor does avoid the tension involved in live TV performances in his shows. ("Ida's feeling was that she'd rather have a live husband.") Actor Lee (Death of a Salesman) Cobb suffered his second attack last June, plans to return to work this week. Charles Henry ("Doc") Strub, managing director of California's Santa Anita race...
...Earmarked $1,500,000 in additional emergency funds (previously earmarked: $1,000,000) for relief and rehabilitation in North Carolina areas hard hit by this year's hurricanes...
...goes off the day shift at 5:30 p.m., he switches from manual output to intellectual intake. In 1942, after his first wife died, Marx enrolled in a night course on Western civilization at the New School for Social Research. "I'd get to feeling morose," he explains, "and hit the bottle." He and Idella now attend five or six classes a week at the New School and New York University in such courses as "American Political Parties" and "Psychology of Religion." He finds that being a night-school student at N.Y.U. gives him a formidable fund of information with...
...last week, Toy King Marx was busy wrapping up ideas for the presents that Santa Claus will be bringing two and three years from now. For Lou Marx, Christmas doesn't come just once a year, or even on Dec. 25. "When you come out with a real great hit," he says, "that's Christmas...
...made into an amusing comedy if Lindsay and Crouse were to revise it extensively, especially in the first act, so as to place more emphasis on humor and less on melodrama. Past experience seems to indicate that any play starring the Lunts has a chance to become a hit. The authors should not be content, however, to let their stars reputations draw the crowds...