Word: paged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scene between Launcelot and Old Gobbo, is, on the printed page, one of Shakespeare's weakest comic passages; and, on the stage, it usually proves to be an embarrassing interlude. For the first time in my experience, thanks to Frederic Warriner's Launcelot and Stanley Jay's Gobbo, the scene came out satisfactorily; their combined antics were most hilarious...
...table-hopping judges (who watched for such lapses as overextended pinkies while holding a coffee cup). The contestants also sang, played musical instruments, recited. Miss Georgia (Jeannette Arlene Ardell, 19; 35½-24-36) punctured four balloons with her bow and only seven arrows; and Miss Maryland (Mary Roberta Page, 18; 36-24½-36) drew a horse in luminous chalk...
Russia have agreed to make public their experiments with fusion for power. The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission released a 216-page book giving an excellent history of Project Sherwood, its fusion program. Papers presented at Geneva brought the account up to the minute...
...stormed other terminals with Molotov cocktails. Mexico City transport was in chaos. People jammed the old streetcars, riding atop the roofs, crowded into trucks at 1? per ride. In vain Mexico City's bus drivers appealed to the students to stop. Finally, the 13 transport unions took full-page ads saying what all knew: "These young delinquents have proclaimed themselves defenders of the people. They don't care about the 15,000 modest workers...
...disconcerting editorial flabbiness also crept in. Example: the Trib recently spiked stories on the Hollywood high jinks of Dominican Playboy Rafael ("Ramfis") Trujillo Jr. (see THE HEMISPHERE), which occurred as the paper was getting out a 48-page advertising supplement on the Dominican Republic. The jazzed-up Trib lost serious readership to the ad-heavy, news-fat Times (circ. 663,106), but gained few readers from the morning tabloids, the crisp News (circ. 2,014,542), Hearst's snappy Mirror (circ...