Word: paged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tongue-Thaied. In Seattle, Wash., an Olympic Hotel bell man was required to page Chavala Sukumalanandana of Thailand...
...nation's largest newspapers" whose publisher, fielding an advertiser's request that a certain story be dropped, killed the story promptly. "If this happened on the Post," said Patterson, "the story would probably have been moved from an obscure location to the front page." To which Los Angeles' Murray retorted: "That would be just as wrong as killing the story." ¶ Circulation Manager Patterson also warned that the growth of the daily press is not pacing the growth of the country. Since 1950, he said, morning papers have registered a 10% circulation increase, afternoon papers 8%, against...
...filmed a ferocious facsimile of the flooding Mississippi River for this week's TV version (Playhouse 90) of William Faulkner's novelette Old Man. The story hurls a convict (Sterling Hayden) into the 1927 flood and tells of his heroic struggle to save a pregnant woman (Geraldine Page) before society thrusts him back in the pen with no thanks and ten years extra. Director Frankenheimer prodded Convict Hayden through three days' filming without sleep, drove him past machine-gun fire, dumped him in the 168,000-gallon tank to contend with tidal waves, fog, wind, rain, flood...
...Volume II, Biographer Samuels, professor of English at Northwestern, is sifting out, with notably nonacademic readability, what Adams actually felt and achieved despite his self-proclaimed "failure." During the 13-year-period (1877-90) covered by this book. Adams produced two biographies, two novels, and a 4,000-page history of the administrations of Jefferson and Madison. This could be called failure only in the special sense that an Adams was born to expect miracles from any Adams...
Geraldine Page and Sterling Hayden in a dramatic version of Faulkner's Old Man adapted for TV by another pretty fair country writer, Horton (The Trip to Bountiful) Foote...