Word: played
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, without any explanation, the Federal District government forbade minstrels to play on buses, on pain of jail or fine. But the order had a hole in it. Hereafter, it read, drivers must stop their buses and call a cop whenever the music starts...
...times in the last 45 years, visiting Americans have beaten Britain's amateur best and carried home the 2-ft. silver trophy. Frank Stranahan, who won it last time, and U.S. Amateur Champion Willie Turnesa, who won it the time before that, were back again for the first play of the tournament in Ireland and they were top-heavy favorites...
After five days of match play, the task of turning back the Americans fell squarely on the broad shoulders of 200-lb. Ulsterman Sam McCready. Not many people had heard of 31-year-old Sam: a salesman for a London tobacco firm, he had never swung a club in the nationals before. But in the semifinals, there was Sam, wearing a fixed half-smile on his broad face. He teed off against Frank Stranahan. A brisk wind blew in from the Irish Sea. Between the wind and Sam McCready's smile, Stranahan's game folded up. He went...
...Adam (adapted from Pat Frank's novel by Jack Kirkland; produced by Mr. Kirkland) was the season's final play and worst experience. It concerned the one man in the world who had not been left sterile by an atomic explosion. Plugging doggedly away, Adapter Kirkland (Tobacco Road) left no phrase unturned that might possibly call forth a snicker. But Mr. Adam was worse than vulgar; it was almost maddeningly boring. By week's end it had followed the season to the grave...
...week payroll (duly noted by the London press) was guaranteed. Hardly worried. either was the guarantor-handsome, 31-year-old British Impresario Harold Fielding, who stood to make up in publicity and prestige what he would shell out of his pocket. Moreover, on a turnabout's-fair-play basis, U.S. Music Czar James Caesar Petrillo would welcome British orchestras to tour...