Word: mail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that censorship prevented inclusion of newer facilities. Arriving in Chicago, Tourist Molotov was greeted by a band of grim-faced hecklers, mostly Baltic refugees. A postal employee was spotted at the depot carrying a shotgun and a .45 revolver. Because he refused to be disarmed briefly (he was guarding mail), he was sternly guarded by two cops while Molotov walked through. The diplomat was soon bustling through Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry, where school kids trailed him and one little girl piped: "Isn't he cute...
...Birmingham, two women who declared that they had been admitted by mail to the University of Alabama and then turned down when authorities found that they were Negroes won the first court decision against Jim Crow in the state's educational system. The women, ruled Federal Judge Harlan H. Grooms, "were denied admission to the university solely on account of their race and color." Henceforth, in accordance with the 14th Amendment, the university will have to admit qualified Negroes...
...Paradise), told how Scott and Zelda expected nothing but joy out of life and quarreled bitterly when they were disappointed. "We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promises of American advertising," Zelda once said. "I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail, and that mud will give you a perfect complexion." After Zelda became ill, Fitzgerald said. "I left my capacity for hoping on the little road that led to Zelda's sanitarium." He wrote her: "Do you remember before keys turned in locks, when life was a closeup...
...weeks on the CBS-TV show The $64,000 Question? Or should he let the money ride on another question about Shakespeare for $32,000? Appearing on the show for the third consecutive week, the good-looking, gun-toting scholar disclosed that an overwhelming 90% of his big fan mail begged him to take the $16,000. But fellow cops and newsmen, impressed with his knowledge of Shakespeare, urged him to risk four years' pay for eight. His decision? O'Hanlon admitted that "on one side is the egotism of a scholar; on the other side...
Many of the critics were awed. "It is outrageous and impossible, but it comes off," said News Chronicle Critic Elizabeth Frank. "As Captain Ahab, Welles has devoured the essence of the living theater, the lustiness of the Elizabethans and the fearless, innocent eye of the barnstorming Victorians." The Daily Mail critic thought that Welles the adapter-director got in the way of Welles the actor, allowing "too many words to impede his action . . . But when the play does move . . . the whole theater shudders with the fury of man and mam mal alike...