Word: pies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best of them, if they take the first curve at a dead run, can coast all the way to Leverett. Of course the turnoffs at Lowell and Winthrop are festooned with multicolored blotches from power skids. Most of it washes off, but the artificial coloring in the cherry pie is indelible...
...problem--how to take fairly intimate play and make it fill their great big Cinemascope screen. They solved it by moving their cameras out to Kansas, which the playwright had only mentioned in the original stage production. This get-together turns out to be a hugh affair, complete with pie-eating competition, talent contests, and all the Mid-western trimmings. The picnic fills the screen, all right, but it is abyssmally dull. A few thousand people franticlly enjoying themselves all over the Kansas countryside are just not a particularly interesting subject for drama...
...award called a "Bosco" was given to June Allyson, "who, with eternally girlish homeiness, an aura of fresh-baked, deep-dish apple pie like Mother used to make, and an endless supply of tears, bravely but vainly attempts to resist the onslaught of the advancing years...
...office coffee break, as firmly entrenched in U.S. life as pie a la mode, is a costly and disrupting mid-morning nightmare to many a company from Norwalk, Conn, to Norwalk, Calif. Some employers have simply thrown up their hands-and ducked out of the way of the stampede. But others have set their minds to licking the problem of lost man-hours. In the process they have not only taken the bitterness out of the coffee break, but have helped to spoon up a profitable new business: coffee catering, to bring the coffee in to employees. Says a Kaiser...
What with more cherry pie eating and the city's unwillingness to snowplow the streets, human motion in a geographic sense will cease tomorrow and the CRIMSON will not publish until Thursday. For those interested in other dimensions, time and life refused to cooperate and will continue...