Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Newspaper coverage has not kept pace with the upsurge of public interest in the arts, wrote Theodore H. Parker, longtime critic of all arts for the Hartford Courant (circ. 99,812). "Theater, music, fine arts, dance reviewers are still too often the products of chance. True, not all newspapers need a full-time critic in one or all these fields. But the choice of even a part-time critic, or occasional reviewer, does not always get the care that would be taken in assigning a man to other specialized beats...
...modern secular spirit of the West makes it certain [the Buddhist missionaries] will meet with considerable success . . . There is a very deep interest in Buddhism growing among students in [Western] schools and universities...
...watched the show for the first time. "The pins go down-or don't go down, as the case might be-and that's about it." But like millions of other televiewers, Crosby kept right on watching. "The darn thing does have a sort of morbid interest," he discovered. "First one guy's ahead, then the other one. Pretty soon you find yourself rooting for one or the other...
Unlike Crosby, most bowling fans take more than a rooting interest. Egged on by TV (which devotes an estimated 9,000 hours each year to bowling), they have succumbed to an athletic urge to topple tenpins themselves. When the 54th annual championships began in Fort Worth last month, the American Bowling Congress needed every inch of the vast Will Rogers Memorial Coliseum to accommodate 16,000 competitors from all over the country. Last week, after five weeks of clamorous competition, the tournament was still drawing big crowds. With only two weeks to go, the battle was so close that...
TURKISH OIL REFINERY with 65,000-bbl.-a-day capacity will be built for $48 million by U.S.-British-Dutch combine. With existing Turkish state plant, it will supply nation's entire oil needs. Mobil Overseas Oil Co. will have 37% interest, California Texas Corp. 34%, Royal Dutch Shell group 18%, British Petroleum...