Word: leos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other tryout was Third Best Sport, by Eleanor and Leo Bayer. (The third best sport turned out to be convention-going, after sex and baseball.) The play is a propaganda comedy about non-conformity, hypocrisy and group-ism. It is an inept concoction of situational cliches, overworn ideas and stereotyped characters. There is the sour corporation president, the xenophobic grande dame, the iconoclastic philosophy professor, the ambitious junior executive, and the young wife who upsets everything by refusing to be a lickspittle. The structure is creaky, and the turns of the plot wholly predictable. Celeste Holm did her best...
...though he is hardened against the lung-searing pain of the mile, Australia's running machine may not be immune to the soft lure of the dollar. Last week a U.S. sports promoter named Leo Leavitt bragged that he had offered Elliott $248,000 for a two-year tour as a pro. Elliott admitted that he was thinking over the offer: "Wouldn't you if $248,000 were at stake?" But sportsmen Down Under took heart from Elliott's phoned statement to the Brisbane Sunday Mail: "I have my sights on a place on the Australian team...
Despite the subcommittee's stark warning, the U.S. Congress plainly intended to keep its head in the sand on civil defense: just two days after the House subcommittee issued its report, the Senate Appropriations Committee flatly turned down Civil Defense Boss Leo Hoegh's modest request for $13,150,000 to get a prototype shelter program started...
Then Frank ("Lover Boy") Sinatra, the picture's hero, lounged into town trailed by a variegated crew of camp followers that included Leo ("The Lip") Durocher, a couple of casual redheads, and a court jester named Mack ("Killer") Gray. Less than a day later, love began to die between Metro and Madison...
Besides her long-suffering husband (Gene Lyons), Dulcy's circle includes her bemused brother-in-law (Perry Fiske); a humorless, successful businessman (Lawrence Fletcher) with a flighty, amateur-writing wife (Gloria Barret), love-smitten daughter (Betty Rollin), and silly advertising agent (Brooks Rogers); an overdrawn temperamental Hollywoodite (Leo Bloom), who insists on being called a "scenarist" rather than a "scenario writer"; a piano-playing gentleman with hallucinosis (Justice Watson); a celebrated attorney (Stanford McAuley); and an ex-larcenous butler (Howard Mann...