Word: missing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wounded, Cockrell was taken to a hospital in a neighboring town. And within minutes of the shooting, nearly half of Boyd's townspeople began gathering in a sullen, jeering crowd outside the town hall. Cried one voice: "I hope Cockrell dies." Cried another: "We sure won't miss him. He can stay gone." With such sentiment clearly prevailing, Main Street could start preparing for the nightly roar of the hot-rodders...
This week, almost unnoticed against the splashy baptism of the nuclear-powered submarine named after a Greek god, the Navy prepared to launch a slim, 3,990-ton destroyer at the Ingalls Shipbuilding Yard in Pascagoula, Miss. The destroyer's name: Parsons, after the man who armed the first atom bomb dropped...
Mary Cass, a Northwestern co-ed during the regular year, plays Estelle, the full-bodied French seductress who murdered her child in the presence of its father. Miss Cass holds herself well; she gestures effectively; she controls her voice; and she has the advantage of beauty. The only complaints, and they are picayune, are occasional lapses when she isn't involved in the dialogue, and a tendency to grimace too often...
...second act was the triumph of the evening. The scene marked Eliza's first and half-educated entrance into high society. In this Miss Harris was perfect. Her conversation and accent, a mixture of her own flower-girl experience and the teaching of Professor Higgins, carried the one-sided conversation to a hilarious and colorful climax. She was ably assisted in this by Olive Dunbar as Mrs. Eynsford Hill, and Joyce Ebert as her daughter, whose wonderful indignant facial expression added a great deal of amusement to the overall scene. Cavada Humphrey, as Higgins' mother, played the Victorian matriarch...
...film. It is one of Hollywood's more rugged excursions so far into neorealism. The naughty words "hell" and "damn" are sprinkled like matinee popcorn through the script, and enough torsos are dismembered to satisfy Jack the Ripper. But those who read Author Mailer's bestseller will miss its biting honesty and unrelenting conclusion...