Word: paged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Best." Yet the onstage Adlai was in comparatively dull fettle. In Albany he devoted three pages of a five-page speech in homage to New York's roster of eminent Democrats (Roosevelt, Lehman, Al Smith), not neglecting recent foes Averell Harriman and Carmine De Sapio. Nor was his attack on the Eisenhower Administration any more resounding than the calling of the roll: a "false front" administration, he called it, where Eisenhower appointees were undercutting programs, e.g., public housing, conservation, which had progressed under the Democratic administrations. Many a New York Democratic conventioneer sat on his hands...
Often the stories seemed almost incomprehensible jigsaw fragments except to those aware-as all Eastbourne is-of some rumors that the papers dared not print. For example, on Page One, London's conservative Daily Telegraph merely reported that Hannam had interviewed the 72-year-old mother of Sir John Hunt, who led the Mt. Everest expedition, but offered no clue as to why or what resulted beyond the fact that she "described an incident which occurred at a small bridge party she gave about twelve years ago." Another account told of reports that letters written by relatives to aging...
...Celeste Holm and Cyril Ritchard. John Huston's Lysistrata, Anatole Litvak's Mayerling with Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer, Claire Bloom in the Old Vic's Romeo and Juliet, the Lunts, making their TV debuts, in The Great Sebastians, Gene Kelly and Fredric March in Front Page, a Roy Rogers rodeo. NBC will also give opera, ballet and concert-hall music their biggest boost as popular art forms with the Sadler's Wells Ballet's Cinderella, Puccini's La Boheme, Verdi's La Traviata, Beethoven's Fidelio, the world premiere of Prokofiev...
...with stories of a pan-Arab underground pledged to blow up Western oil installations in the Middle East if Egypt should be attacked, and told of volunteers reportedly arriving from Uganda and French Equatorial Africa to fight for Nasser. But the week's biggest sensation was a front-page spy plot with real-life British villains...
Overnight, Maria's clothes crisis became another front-page sensation. The fellow-traveling Avanti jumped at the chance to twit church papers: "[They] are evidently discontented with God, for they seek to change His creations." The nationwide hoopla was too much for Maria, and she refused to appear in a specially fashioned dress. Turin...