Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twice Wisconsin's Senator William Proxmire had got a big play with his speeches attacking Johnson for highhandedness in making Democratic policy decisions, and the attacks had brought Proxmire more mail than anything else he had ever done. Oregon's Wayne Morse, traveling in Wisconsin, made the papers with a complaint that Johnson was a "Charlie McCarthy in a political ventriloquist act." Michigan's unemployment-harassed Pat McNamara, whose Senate achievements have hardly been worth a stick of type, squawked at Johnson for blocking liberal Democratic attempts to broaden unemployment compensation. Pennsylvania's Joe Clark dashed...
...Sweat." At first popular only in the East, handball was taken up by the Y.M.C.A.s, got a big lift in the '30s when the Federal Government's make-work programs built hundreds of outdoor courts. Inexpensive to play (a good pair of leather gloves costs only $5), the sport now claims some 5,500,000 participants. "When you're young, you play singles and run and sweat," says one handballing Chicago doctor. "Later you take up doubles, and when you're 70, you pick a strong partner and just putter around...
...Villanova University, Don Bragg neglected rope swinging for pole vaulting, flew so high, despite his hefty 200 Ibs.. that two months ago he set the world's indoor record of 15 ft. 9½ in. But Bragg remained a disquieted young man. He still wanted to play Tarzan in the movies, still used the nickname Tarzan. still had the canvas cases on his poles marked Don "Tarzan" Bragg...
Down to earth, Bragg was even more certain than ever that some day Hollywood would ask him to be Tarzan. Said he: "I can play Tarzan better than anyone in the world...
Kataki (by Shimon Wincelberg) is a play, originally done on television (TIME, March 24, 1958), with two characters, one of them a Japanese soldier who speaks all but a few of his lines in Japanese. Marooned with him on a South Pacific island near the end of World War II is a bird-brained, teen-age American G.I. who chitters with naive notions and cliches. The Japanese is seemingly incapable of an ignoble act, while the American is a bundle of petty spites and treachery...