Word: prizefight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...provide foreign-language experience in the elementary grades (French, Spanish, German). Bellevue also cut grade and age barriers to encourage able youngsters to push ahead for advanced work in languages, music, mathematics. Such a pushing program needed a keen staff and close community support. A brush-topped joiner and prizefight buff, Brain got both. "His ability to hire and keep good personnel has given Bellevue the pick of applicants," says Bellevue's school-board president...
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Drama set in the prizefight ring, with Rory Calhoun as a manager betrayed by the protégé he brought to the big time...
Died. James Gleason, 72, wispy, slang-spouting cinemactor who inevitably turned up as the prizefight manager, the private eye, the top sergeant or the political crony in scores of films, from Here Comes Mr. Jordan to The Last Hurrah, onetime Broadway playwright who hit the big time in 1925 with Is Zat So? (618 performances), later wrote plays with fat cast lists in order to provide work for actors; of chronic asthma; in Hollywood...
...reassuringly after each episode. They enjoy being scared, but become uneasier by the degree to which they can place themselves in a drama. Some children prefer adult crime thrillers precisely because they seem less realistic. To children, daggers and sharp instruments are more scary than guns, a real-life prizefight more upsetting than a western's barroom brawl...
...stage. The Flute Player, which tells the story of the Pied Piper against a tape of a children's chorus played at double speed. Three years ago his opera Imagery of Saint-Michel created a scandal in Venice, chiefly because the action takes place in a prizefight ring, with Archangel Michael represented by a contralto dressed in a boxer's dressing gown...