Word: plums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...board chairman), Brigadier General (ret.) John Reed Kilpatriclc. Its gist: longtime (1937-49) Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis had tried to pry a tax-free $100,000 under-the-table bonus from the Garden brass for a 1949 defense of his crown (Joe retired before the fight ever materialized). The plum would not have helped Louis much. No hand at finance, drained by percentage men and hangers-on, broken by his own improvidence, Louis now owes a staggering $1,210,789 in U.S. income-tax arrears for 1946-51. New Jersey's Democratic Representative Alfred Sie-minslci is appealing...
...country's history, will throw together Uranium King Joseph Hirshhorn's properties (TIME, Feb. 21, 1955) with Britain's big Rio Tinto mine interests. For $34 million in stocks and bonds, Hirshhorn has sold his holdings in the Blind River area (Pronto Uranium, Pater, Plum...
Coach Dick Vaughan will probably start a line made up of Captain George Scragg, John Butsch, and sophomore Harry Rulon-Miller. The starting defense pair is Hugh Watts and Matt Plum, and the goalie will be junior Dave Robinson...
...sold Stalin the idea that South Korea was another ripe plum waiting to fall into the Soviet basket was three-star General Terenty F. Shtykov, boss of the Soviet armed forces in North Korea and later Soviet ambassador to Pyongyang. When the Communist invasion unexpectedly ran into allied armed opposition, Stalin pulled the rank and ribbons off Shtykov and sent him into that twilight of disfavor which has so often preceded the long night for Communist bigwigs. But last week Shtykov surprised the world by springing back into the news: at Vladivostok (only 400 miles from his old stamping ground...
...role of Serafina is a juicy acting plum, and Anna Magnani swallows it whole; skin, pit and all. She is little short of overpowering when she goes into one of her frequent states of towering rage, and when she sulks she seems like a fury with nobody but herself to haunt. Best of all are the comic scenes, which she plays with the broad and leering satisfaction of a peasant. Burt Lancaster tries hard as the bachelor-clown, but even in his most successful moments he appears almost pathetically outclassed...