Word: paired
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most potent force in U.S. moviemaking is a pair of Manhattan lawyers: Robert Benjamin, 49, and Arthur Krim, 48. At a time when things in Hollywood are going from bad to worse, they have demonstrated a new way to make fat profits and good pictures-or possibly vice versa. When, in early 1951, they took over United Artists, one of Hollywood's oldest and biggest film-distributing companies, it was losing $100,000 a day. Last week, in the first annual report since a public stock issue last spring, President Krim reported record profits...
Presbyterian's strong doubles teams provided the winning margin, as the singles were split evenly. Brownlow and Hoffman easily defeated Junta and Sears, 6-4, 6-2, and Potter and Shakespeare edged the Sophomore pair of Gallwey and Vinton...
...high-ranking hen normally eats first, but either Smith or Hale was always lurking outside the pen, finger on the button. Whenever the No. 1 hen tried to eat or peck, it got an electric shock. It also got a shock when the low-ranking hen of the pair plucked up courage to peck it. After a short course of this treatment, the upper-class hens began to have serious doubts about their place in society...
...went to see Gielgud, who got him a tryout-and another and another. No luck. Gielgud had nothing left to offer but a loan. Alec was close to starving. He had eaten nothing but a green apple, a bun and a glass of milk in 24 hours. His last pair of shoes were so far gone that he was walking the streets of London barefoot to save leather. But he refused the kindness and tottered out, weak with hunger...
...commandant has ordered an attack on a police station which may well kill innocents. The writing is no great shakes, but there is nothing slipshod about the moral crux onto which Novelist Roth has carpentered his O'Neill. A Terrible Beauty is a plain tale, honest as a pair of well-cobbled brogans. Unhappily, every now and then Roth remembers that writing about Ireland is supposed to be a bit on the poetic side, and sets up a keen about the scenery or the weather. The only terrible beauty in the book belongs to W. B. Yeats...