Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Semper Paratus. In Provincetown, Mass., police took a second look at George Ash Gaines, arrested him, extracted sun glasses, vitamin pills, stage money, scissors, surgical throat lights and 212 other odds & ends from the two suits he was wearing...
...satisfaction, at least, the U.S. Communist Party showed last week how to run off a political convention. The 14th national convention since the party's founding in 1919, it began with a mass meeting in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. The meeting was open to all; 17,000 attended. Then 250 carefully culled-over delegates slipped off to the uptown and plainly bourgeois Riverside Plaza Hotel for the real business...
Three giant Sunday supplements blanket U.S. newsstands and front porches every week. But the blanket is full of holes; for small dailies and weeklies there is no mass-produced American Weekly, This Week or Parade. Last week a new supplement got ready to cover these journalistic bare spots. Nowadays, which will start in the fall, has already signed up 305 Midwest papers with a total circulation...
Married. Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr., 28, television equipment merchant, who accompanied his father on the 1947 Antarctic expedition; and Emily Bradley Saltonstall, 28, daughter of Massachusetts' senior Senator Leverett Saltonstall; in Dover, Mass...
Died. Susan Glaspell, 66, little-theater pioneer, novelist, and Pulitzer Prizewinning playwright (Alison's House, 1930); of virus pneumonia; in Provincetown, Mass. She and first husband George Cram ("Jig") Cook led the experimentalists' rebellion against Broadway commercialism at their ramshackle Wharf Theater in Provincetown, gave Eugene O'Neill's first plays their first performances, helped found Manhattan's famed Provincetown Players in 1916, and wet-nursed the little-theater movement...