Word: pots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like pease porridge in the pot, the Louis-Conn $100-a-seat fiasco was nine days old. As though his cold porridge had been piping hot, Promoter Mike Jacobs last week dished up another serving: another of his unbeatable Negro champions, Lightweight Bob Montgomery, defending his crown for the first time since 1944. This time Mike priced his ringside seats at a quiet $17. The fans stayed away and missed a real fight...
...back as 1944 the justices-the vigorous "Nine Young Men"-had been taking polite, legalistic pot shots at each other. These stemmed largely from ideological differences: Black headed the left wing and Jackson, along with Justice Frankfurter, the right wing...
...admission, Manhattan's pink knight among newspapers, the hyperthyroid tabloid PM, has everything it takes to be a great newspaper-except readers. Its 165,000 nickel-a-day "shareholders" (over 200,000 pay a dime on Sundays) make up a weekly $60,000 pot, but each week some bills go unpaid. For most of PM's six years, Marshall Field has been standing off the sheriff. Some weeks the gesture cost him $40,000. By last week, founder-editor Ralph Ingersoll's* pamphleteering paper had set back his benefactor...
Talking Pottery. The Mochicas, and most other ancient Peruvians, buried sculptured pots with their dead. With painstaking detail, and sometimes with hair-raising sound effects, these pots show birth and death, work and play, war and worship. One famed example of the Peruvian pottery art shows a surgeon at work on a woman's back. When filled with water and tipped back & forth, the pot gives a long-drawn sigh, then a loud scream of pain...
...dead as at the box office. When Broadway looked at the disturbing in U.S. life, it showed more social conscience than skill. But a social conscience was alive in the theater, and even slick comedy smashes like Born Yesterday and the Pulitzer-Prizewinning State of the Union took pot shots at political and social targets...