Word: meats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...face all the time, for all the emotion he musters. Joan Fontaine is just as dull as Rowena. Elizabeth Taylor shows better, partly because you have only to look to appreciate her, and partly because her role of Rebecca, the Jewess accused of sorcery, offers a good deal more meat than the others. The only actors who make their lives come alive are the stalwarts of the Old Vic, Emlyn Williams and Felix Aylmer. They obviously feel more at home in the world of flowery speech...
...pitcher almost the whole season, which points out the weakness of the pitching staff. The infield which until the last two weeks was destined to set a new major league fielding mark leaked openly in the stretch. And the powerful batting order is loaded with right-handers, just the meat for Yankee right-handers Raschi and Reynolds...
...showdown came that afternoon when the delegates met at a reception at the Hotel de Ville. Most notable item served: champagne. Frothing like a bottle of Piper-Heidsieck '37, a British Dry announced: "You don't invite a vegetarian to dinner and then serve meat. You know, this wouldn't happen in any other country." With impeccable Gallic aplomb, the maitre d'hotel ushered the foaming Drys to a separate table set with walnut juice and other soft drinks. The Frenchmen stayed where they were, and before very long sent out for more champagne...
Former News Editor and Radcliffe Bureau Chief The CRIMSON, John Sack refuses to take this book seriously, steadfastly muttering that "it is a startling revelation of conditions within the meat industry . . . Second only to Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle. He is selling himself short. Sack's Butcher is a mountain, a treacherous Andean mountain given to icefalls and rotten ledges of snow. He tells how a pair of students--members of a Katzenjammer Kids mountaineering expedition from Harvard and Stanford--climbed that mountain in the summer of 1950 and very nearly lost their lives in the process...
...until Labor Day it was not so much what Adlai Stevenson said as the way he said it. At Detroit this week the Democratic candidate formally opened his campaign with a speech that contained more meat than sauce. He stepped briskly into the hot fight over the Taft-Hartley law, demanded its repeal and called for a new law based on "five general principles...