Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eight years ago a starry-eyed young actress plodded across a Broadway stage, said humorously inane things in a squeaky voice and sent first night audiences into hysterics. Overnight Judy Holliday's Billie Dawn became the champion of America's dumb blonde segment. Even with an Oscar on her dresser and Born Yesterday entrenched in Broadway's list of Long Runs, Judy Holliday's brand of witlessness is still unalloyed in her new movie, It Should Happen...
...compulsively for handholds, eyes fixed unblinkingly on the heights. No ledge was too narrow, no couloir too deep to halt him. The traveling companions who could not keep up he left behind. Some grabbed for his ankles or coattails. He shook them off. He bounded up to fame almost overnight as Sergeant Joe Friday, the quiet, dark-haired, jug-eared hero of Dragnet (NBC, Thurs. 9 p.m. E.S.T.*). He still climbs feverishly...
...last month, B. S. Meshchevitinov, the Soviet Union's young cultural attache in Norway, jammed his belongings into grips and caught the overnight express to Stockholm. He got away just in time. The next day, Inspector Asbjoern Brhyn of the Norwegian security police announced that Meshchevitinov had been Russian contact for the biggest spy ring ever unearthed in Norway. For the past two years, Meshchevitinov had been driven in a limousine to isolated and regular rendezvous near the capital. There he had been met by a tall, pale man who supplied the Russian with a complete file of Norway...
...results of such rare good sense were little short of electrifying. Overnight, the Negro leaders called off the strike. Jasper Savanhu apologized: "I have now discovered that the white troops behaved correctly, and I unreservedly withdraw my allegation." Said another Negro: "Here in Rhodesia, the white man and the black man lie in the same bed. But the white man has kept the blanket, and the black man has tossed all night. Now we are getting a share of the blanket...
...Tennessee's Governor Frank G. Clement contended with good reason that present knowledge is not being put to use. As he phrased it: "If we knew as much about the cure of cancer as we do about that of mental illness, there would be a medical revolution overnight...