Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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South Carolina is proud to find you have assigned it a grade of "F" on desegregation. North Carolina! How she must be humiliated at receiving only "C minus...
...Argentina last week by proclamation of Provisional President Eduardo Lonardi. On the same day, anti-Peronist employees of the famed independent La Prensa, seized by Perón in 1951, threw pictures and busts of the dictator and his wife, Eva. from the building, began publishing the paper minus the masthead slogan "in the era of Perón." Editor and Publisher Alberto Gainza Paz, who has lived in exile in Manhattan, prepared to fly back to Buenos Aires in hopes of resuming control of Latin America's greatest newspaper. Said he: "I will fight for the reopening...
Five of Harvard's football opponents sloshed through mud and rain on Saturday to opening victories. Only Dartmouth, without the services of injured captain Leo McKenna, and Brown, minus Tom "TD" Thompson, who reported late for practice, lost their games, and these by a total of three points. The University of Massachusetts will play its postponed game against American International this afternoon...
...third-place New York Giants jettisoned one of their once-great pitchers. Sal ("The Barber") Maglie, who failed to complete a game since June. Minus his old touch (95 wins, 42 losses), which helped take the Giants to two World Series ('51, '54), The Barber was sold to Cleveland for $10,000, was blasted for five runs in the first two innings of his first game for the Indians...
...Hacks. As the realization grows in TV circles that an inferior script means an inferior show, despite stars and lavish production, the prices for quality plays are gradually spiraling upward. Next season quality writers will get as much as $2,000 for a half-hour script (22 minutes minus commercials and credits) and up to $6,000 for a one-hour script (44 minutes). Some writers are already making $30,000 and $40,000 a year on their TV work alone. When Hollywood snaps up a TV script, the writer's income soars...