Word: platt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York's Communist Daily Worker had not given its stamp of approval to local revivals of four old W. C. Fields comedies and last week Columnist David Platt told why: "It is because three of the four, The Bank Dick, My Little Chickadee and You Can't Cheat an Honest Man, are shot through with white chauvinism...
...baked legislation. The "Republican hiatus" represents nothing more reactionary than a pause to think--but thinking seems to be out of style when government is conducted on sales slogans--"New Deal," "fair deal," "gluttons of privilege,"--political programs retailed in the same fashion as cigarettes and soap. Richard E. Platt...
Singles: Backe won, 6-1, 6-1; Brandt won, 6-2, 7-5; Platt won 6-2, 6-0; Wightman lost, 6-3, 4-6, 6-1; Ager won, 6-2, 6-3; Bullard...
...critics had to go on was a generalized but nonetheless official sketch and a somewhat glamorized interpretation of it by LIFE (see cut). But it was enough to raise the hackles of conservative architects. Said the president of Manhattan's Municipal Art Society, Architect Charles C. Platt: "It seems to me simply slabs turned up and slabs lying on their belly, with no unity of composition. . . . A diabolical dream. . . ." Cried Perry Coke Smith, of the American Institute of Architects: "It looks like a sandwich on edge and a couple of freight cars. . . . I fail to see how an office...
...Cashman (RIS); fourth, Castrano (RIS). Time--4 min., 25 8/10 sec. Two-mile run--Won by Black (RIS); second, Cameron (RIS); third, La Flamac (RIS); fourth, Rosenfeld (H). Time--10 min., 16 9/10 sec. 120-yard high hurdles--Won by Flint (H); second, Crossley (B); third, Dahl (RIS); fourth, Platt (RIS). Time--15 sec. 220-yard low hurdles--Won by Flint (H); second, Corcoran (RIS); third, McCormick (H); fourth, Crossley (B). Time--24 3/10 sec. Polt vault--Won by Harwood (H); tie for second between Torrey (H) and Sherman (RIS); fourth, Lawrence (H). Height--13 ft. High jump...