Word: kaufmans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...love and death. The setting is Rego Park, Queens, a part of New York City where thousands pursue their lives in middle-income high-rises not far from one of the largest and dreariest cemetery complexes in the world. The story is about a young mother named Sandy Kaufman who must confront the irreversible truth that her 32-year-old husband is dying from multiple cancer of the marrow...
...Shows like Studio One and Playhouse 90 contributed as much pyrite as gold. But at their least, they gave good actors a shot at big roles: Rod Steiger, James Dean, Paul Newman, Anne Bancroft, Joanne Woodward were all there in living black and white. Satire, said Playwright George S. Kaufman, is what closes Saturday night. But somehow every Saturday night Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows managed to kid every facet of '50s life, from commuters to foreign films. Satire thrived in Washington, where Cartoonist Herblock made savage, premonitory caricatures of Vice President Nixon in search...
...flair of a railway timetable. Lyons' prose strained toward the average, and his penchant for missing, mangling or omitting entirely the kicker of anecdotes was the despair of his sources. During the World War II point system of rationing managed by the Office of Price Administration, George S. Kaufman said that Lyons "missed so many points that he was under investigation by the OPA." One botched Lyons story: after Noel Coward had made some disparaging remarks about Brooklyn and earned the borough's vocal displeasure, he began his visits to U.S. military hospitals with the question: "Anybody here...
...nightcap, on the other hand, was a bit closer. Both starters, O'Malley and Mark Softy for Princeton, sailed through the first four innings with the Tigers getting the only hit, a double by Kevin Kaufman in the second. But Princeton could not capitalize on the hit and Kaufman died at third...
...Blodgett and Ed Kuchar singled in the inning and Ken Beytin reached on a rare Durso error to load the bases. Kaufman then served up his second hit of the day to drive in the tying and go-ahead runs. It almost looked as if O'Malley would be saddled with another undeserved loss, but the Crimson bats were able to put the ball where they wanted it in the sixth to earn...