Word: kerrs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kerr-Mills Act, implemented (or soon to be) in 38 states, provides federal funds to help localities pay hospital and nursing bills for the aged who are already on relief, plus aid for those who are not indigent until their resources are wiped out by medical catastrophes. Beneficiaries are expected soon to number...
...musical, Subways Are for Sleeping, Merrick stacked up one above another the names of Manhattan's seven daily-newspaper critics, and in huge block letters proclaimed that 7 OUT OF 7 ARE ECSTATICALLY UNANIMOUS ABOUT "SUBWAYS ARE FOR SLEEPING." Beside each name was a quote. Walter Kerr, for example: "What a show! What a hit! What a solid hit! If you want to be overjoyed, spend an evening with Subways Are for Sleeping. A triumph." Howard Taubman: "One of the few great musical comedies of the last 30 years, one of the best of our time. It lends luster...
Howard Taubman who writes dramatic criticism for the New York Times. But he was Howard Taubman all right-an audio-equipment salesman on Lexington Avenue. Next came a rather handsome likeness of Walter Kerr, not Walter F. Kerr of the Herald Tribune, of course, but Walter J. Kerr, a manufacturers' representative. So on down the line, Merrick's version of Richard Watts, the ever smiling cherub of the New York Post, was a Negro who works as a printing supervisor with the Blue Cross. Merrick explained later that he had selected this particular Richard Watts because "there...
...actual score among the daily critics when they reviewed Subways Are for Sleeping was three negatives (Kerr, Taubman, and John McClain of the Journal-American) against three positives (Watts, Chapman, and Robert Coleman of the Mirror), with the World-Telegram's Norman Nadel hanging in the air. Said the real Kerr: "Limp." Quoth the real Taubman: "Stumbles as if suffering from somnambulism...dull and vapid...
...which the film was mostly made, is a demon's dream house, and Director Jack (Room at the Top} Clayton, sensitively seconded by Cameraman Freddie Frances, has filled every coign and corridor with a dangerous, intelligent darkness. Moreover, the main performances are most capably carried off. Actress Kerr, with steely control, tunes herself like a violin string till she quivers exquisitely at the snapping point; and the dear children are just what Author James imagined-faces that shine like bright new pennies till the watcher begins to wonder uneasily about the other side of the coin...