Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Star game were to follow the regular season, it would have to come before Thanksgiving, since winter sports begin after the holiday. This would leave only a few days of practice for the Bowl contest...
White Christmas (Paramount) is a sentimental recollection of the 1942 musical Holiday Inn, in which Bing Crosby first sang the song White Christmas. From the first scene (Christmas 1944) to the last (Christmas 1954), it is blatantly the I "big musical," a big fat yam of a picture richly candied with VistaVision (Paramount's answer to CinemaScope), Technicolor, tunes by Irving Berlin, massive production numbers, and big stars. Unfortunately, the yam is still...
...plot revolves around a handsome wide-smiling, fatherly ex-general (Dean Jagger) whose ownership of a nice old white inn in Vermont (remember the inn in Holiday Inn?) is endangered by business conditions. Two of his former men (Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye), who since the war have made a big success in show business, come to his rescue. They throw a benefit at the inn, and call on all the old man's old soldiers to help out. Meanwhile, they are able to do a good turn for a sister act (Rosemary Cloonev and Vera-Ellen...
...being told that, at any rate, their teams are the best behaved. The big question in Britain last week: Had the Russians deliberately invited Arsenal in order to set up an easy victory for themselves? England was "sacrificed," snarled Peter Wilson in the Daily Mirror, to "make a Russian holiday...
...plant and employees started drifting back to work (TIME. Sept. 20), union leaders and management hammered out a settlement that meant victory for the company but saved face for the unionists. Among the terms: a 4? hourly wage hike (v. the 5? demanded and the 3? offered), an extra holiday, arbitration of 27 cases involving employees who were fired during the strike for alleged violence and intimidation...