Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...monstrous," read a letter young Astor got from Muckraker Upton Sinclair soon after leaving Harvard to administer his money. "The poor people see in the papers the picture of your magnificent and luxurious home and they realize that it is out of the rents that they pay." But Astor, wiser even then than he appeared to be, replied calmly: "I am not unmindful of the wrongs to be righted...
...turn-of-the-century London waxworks, Redhead casts Gwen as Essie Whimple, a mouse-humble cockney-accented taxidermist of crime sensations. When the wax cools on her tableau of a purple-scarf murder before the clues do, and the strangler begins stalking her, poor Essie hides out as a showgirl with a neighboring theatrical troupe. For Essie, a spinster of 29, whose lips have never touched liquor, cigarettes or men, the greatest thrill is to be close to the show's American strong man (Richard Kiley). The problem: who will get whose man first-Scotland Yard or Essie Whimple...
...revival is Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts Director Anna Olmsted, who launched a series of national ceramic shows in 1932, this year invited entries from ten European countries, Canada and Hawaii. Some $3,200 in prizes was awarded by a jury headed by Painter-Ceramist Henry Varnum Poor, generally considered dean of modern U.S. potters. The show will travel to five more U.S. cities in the next year, last week was on view at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum...
...introduction to the show's catalogue, Juror Poor ruefully concludes that U.S. potters are not yet up to their European contemporaries. Perhaps, he says, it is because Americans "contend with more automobiles, more radios and television, more chain stores and packaging, more of all the things that induce nervousness and discontent and dissipate the patience and oneness most necessary for a potter...
...Poulsen, the captain and center, Brown has a well-balanced, if mediocre offense. Poulsen who sparked the 80-75 overtime victory over the Crimson with 16 points, is averaging 13.3 a game. He will be joined by A1 Diussa and Jack Bellavance, a pair of pretty poor guards, and Dave Reed and Cliff Ehrlich, not bad forwards...