Word: p
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...absence, now wanted to march on Syria's Damascus. Troops swarmed in the streets of Amman, firing shots in the air, shouting: "Long live Hussein!" and "Hussein, we are your men!" Grateful citizens carried Hussein on their shoulders. Premier Samir Rifai informed the U.N. representative in Amman, Pier P. Spinelli, that the government intended to protest Syria's behavior to the U.N. Security Council. Jordan demanded an immediate meeting of the Arab League Council to take action. U.A.R. officials replied that Hussein's plane had been crossing Syria without proper clearance and had been intercepted...
...automobile," said M.C. David Susskind on his talkathon Open End, "the writer is to a theatrical production. Our guests tonight are seven Cadillacs, the key creators of many of TV's finest hours." The Cadillacs: Robert Alan Arthur, Paddy Chayevsky, Sumner Locke Elliott. James Lee, J. P. Miller, Tad Mosel, David Shaw-almost all of whom have abandoned TV. As a producer (Du Pont Show of the Month) and the Custer of live TV drama (TIME, June 2), Susskind wanted to know why the writers had given up. Why not stay in the medium that produced Chayevsky...
...decline of live TV drama: ¶ The public got bored with the sort of slice-of-life vignettes that Chayevsky and the other "agony boys" used to turn out every month. Eventually, the boys got bored themselves. "I didn't get tired of it," said J. P. (Days of Wine and Roses) Miller. "I just couldn't stand it." ¶ The critics were too rough, flailed original dramas more harshly than run-of-the-hoof westerns. Robert Alan Arthur (Man on a Mountain Top) denounced "an incredibly brutal dismissal" of a recent production of Joseph Conrad...
Divorced. By John P. Marquand, 65, novelist whose current bestseller, Women and Thomas Harrow, concerns a writer who has three unsuccessful marriages: Adelaide Hooker Marquand, 55, his second wife (sister of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller III); after 21 years of marriage, three children; in Carson City...
Winners in the final Football Forecast of this season are the following: Henry S. Berman '61 (Barnes & Noble), Martin Lampe '62 (Mike's Club), William B. Snow '60 (Elsie's), and Russel P. Schwartz '62 (Harvard Book Store, Schoenhof's, Ferranti-Dege...