Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major-league leaders after six weeks of play...
...pill. With full official sanction, newspapers began criticizing each other: "Soviet newspapers," wrote Pravda in a recent and scathing Press Day editorial, "are insipid, lifeless, deadly dull and difficult to read." Komsomolskaya Pravda, the youth paper, erupted in a rash of sensational feature stories, e.g., "What Role Does Love Play in Marriage?" Pravda's publishing house gave birth to a new daily, Sovetskaya Rossia, which in three years has built a circulation of 1,500,000 by offering jaded citizens a giddy diet of local news, lively pictures, display ads and reader polls...
...loosely knit, ten-paper Lee syndicate.† Founded by A. (for Alfred) W. Lee in 1890, the chain is now handled by his nephew, Lee Loomis, 74, who lives in Mason City, Iowa, presides over a tidy little empire that is generally pro-Republican, but allows its members to play the news as staidly or sensationally as they like. The reported bid of the Lee papers for the copper chain: some...
Died. Louis N. Ridenour Jr., 47, top-notch nuclear physicist who, despite being emotional about his specialty (in 1946 he wrote a grim, prophetic, one-act play about flocks of satellite bombs orbiting 800 miles above the doomed earth), pioneered in missile programs as chief scientist (1950-51) of the Air Force, helped develop the Polaris and X-17 missiles as research director of Lockheed Aircraft Corp.'s missile-systems division, became a Lockheed vice president last March; of a brain hemorrhage; in Washington...
Died. Oswald D. Heck, 57, popular, powerful, longtime (23 years) Republican speaker of the New York state assembly, who ruled the often unruly legislators with fair play and wit, pushed through controversial measures (State Commission Against Discrimination, compulsory auto insurance, Governor Nelson Rockefeller's tough tax program); of a heart attack; in Schenectady...