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...going to write a primer for my four-year-old, who writes phonetically (fonetik-ly). It's going to be called At the Barnyard and have sentences like "You should buff the rough wood on the plough now," and "After the calf laughs the fey jay neighs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 15, 1963 | 3/15/1963 | See Source »

...with a $3 top, have risen as high as $4.95. Yet no more than three or four out of 100 off-Broadway productions ever go into the black. The cost of putting on a play has rocketed. In 1953, a revival of Sean O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars was staged for $400. Today, it could not be duplicated for much less than $15,000, the current average production cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Off-Broadway Reckoning | 2/15/1963 | See Source »

...Squibb & Sons, N.Y.C., $450,000; Carter Products Inc., N.Y.C., $441,000; Parke-Davis & Co., Detroit, $417,540; Plough Inc., Memphis, $375,000; Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, N.J., $350,000; Burroughs, Wellcome & Co., Tuckahoe, N.Y., $329,058; Ames Co. Inc., Elkhart, Ind., $302,162; Baxter Laboratories Inc., Morton Grove, Ill., $208,078; Pitman-Moore Co., Indianapolis, $178,980; Kendall Co., Boston, $159,323; Richardson-Merrill, Greensboro, N.C., $155,000; Atlas Chemical Industry, Wilmington, $149,282; Sandoz Pharmaceuticals, Hanover, N.J., $137,260. Under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Those Who Gave | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

...states that the term Grundyism was inspired by Pennsylvania's stiff-collared conservative and onetime G.O.P. State Chairman Joe Grundy. I believe, however, that the term was originally inspired by the prudish and narrowminded Mrs. Grundy, a person referred to in Thomas Morton's comedy Speed the Plough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 23, 1962 | 3/23/1962 | See Source »

Eminently deserving revival, The Plough should have a great Irish one. The Phoenix Theater's production lacks more than Irishness; it is not dramatic or revealing or resonant enough. The play does stir sleepily all evening, though it takes scenes of brawling to bring it really to life, or the great final curtain to assert its piercing ironic force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Play Off-Broadway, Dec. 19, 1960 | 12/19/1960 | See Source »

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