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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Miss Chalmer's essay, "The Golden Squire: A Study in Spencer, Aristotle, and Temperance," was judged the best piece of criticism entered in the contest. "The Homecoming," by Miss Fisher, was recognized as the best original piece of creative writing...
...Other cities with high percentages of Negroes: Jackson, Miss., 40%; Gary, Ind., 39.6%; Savannah...
Week after week, Astrue won. Housewives, journalists, college professors-he beat them all. He did not miss too many of his tough questions and made the most of his share of the snaps. M.C. Bill Wendell asked him if it was true that Robert Hutchins was once chancellor of the University of Chicago. What are the ingredients of a martini? His opponents went down on such questions as: What city, once known as San Francisco's bedroom, is the third largest city in California? What two states at what dates came into the U.S. before Alaska...
Lonelyhearts (Dore Schary; United Artists). In the early years of the Depression, a young man named Nathan Weinstein, the manager of a small hotel in Manhattan, suffered a strange and horrible schizo-religious vision. Set down in a slim volume called Miss Lonelyhearts, published in 1933 under the pen name of Nathanael West, his experience was acclaimed as a masterpiece of the peculiar literature of phantasmagoria-a vision of hell on earth, a scream of anguish at the meaninglessness of human suffering...
Nevertheless, there are moments when a whiff of West goes drifting through the theater like a scent of cyanide emitted by a pretty bonbon; and most of those moments involve Maureen Stapleton, a gifted actress from Broadway who, in her first movie role, impersonates a revolting specimen discovered by Miss Lonelyhearts on a "field trip" among his correspondents. But most of the time the spectator is apt to find himself feeling, as Author West puts it, "like an empty bottle that is slowly being filled with warm, dirty water...