Word: patly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arrogantly demanded permission to edit and change the records of the hearings-a barefaced attempt that would enable him to square his imminent testimony with later established fact. For a while Hoffa had even seemed to be in charge. He led Michigan's bumbling Democratic Senator Pat McNamara, Arizona's Republican Senator Barry Goldwater and New York's Ives down a primrose path. There was conservative Goldwater blandly agreeing with Teamster Hoffa ("I am very hopeful that your philosophy prevails") on the role of organized labor in the U.S. economy, in a windy discourse that had both...
...White House early in the week came samples of messages from 21 prominent civil rights men, e.g., U.N. Official Ralph Bunche, retired Baseball Star Jack Robinson and A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, urging the Administration to stand pat for a strong bill. From such leading Negro newspapers as the Norfolk Journal and Guide and New York's Amsterdam News came outspoken criticism of the N.A.A.C.P. leaders who had agreed to the weak bill. Said the Amsterdam News: "When we find the N.A.A.C.P.'s Secretary, Roy Wilkins, sleeping in the same political...
...half-hour musicals on film and 23 filmed dramatic shows. Frankie's three-year contract will bring him about $4,500,000. Soprano Patrice Munsel will become the first star on the Metropolitan Opera roster to have her own TV series, and both bouncy Guy Mitchell and bland Pat Boone will head up their own variety shows. Warner is busy grinding out reels for a new "adult" horse opera called Sugar-foot to alternate with Cheyenne, and another called Maverick (with new Cowboy James Garner) to oppose the Allen-Sullivan powerhouse Sunday nights. Reliable old Character Actor Walter Brennan...
...will unleash cascades of color and a record-breaking 100 "specials" (the new regime's replacement for Pat Weaver's word "spectacular"), an increase of 15% over last year. The special shows, at least 26 of which will be in color, account for about 117 hours of programing and a whopping $40 million in gross billings. John (Pajama Game) Raitt will join Mary Martin in Annie Get Your Gun; Van Johnson is set to play The Pied Piper of Hamelin; and Mickey Rooney brings his cultivated ham to Pinocchio. Maurice Evans will produce and star in Twelfth Night...
These days she seldom succumbs to her old habit of charging the net behind weak, mediocre shots; no longer does she take the offensive and then temporize, pat back her volleys instead of smashing for the kill. Her booming serve gives her the basis of a sound, big game, and no woman playing today has the ground strokes to pass her. "She plays smarter all the time," says her close friend, former Champion Sarah Palfrey Fabyan Cooke Danzig. "She makes fewer mistakes, and she has the natural ability to be still greater than she is." Darlene Hard, who went...