Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN. This massive song-and-dancer based on Meredith Willson's also-ran Broadway musical owes nearly all its buoyancy to a raucous, winning, free-style performance by Debbie Reynolds as the rich mountain gal who yearns to make a splash in Denver society...
...letters, says Russell, who plans to detail them in an American Heritage magazine article, portray Harding as a devout lover and Mrs. Phillips as something of a moneygrubber. Many of the missives were written on Senate station ery, some on postcards bearing Harding's photograph. Some of them ran to 35 or 40 pages. Some of the letters he signed "Warren," some with his full name, and others with a code name, "Constant...
Black Shadow. For no man could have been more wholly in the South and of the South. William Faulkner was deeply, almost mystically, attached to the land. He was the great-grandson of a man who had owned slaves; his father ran only a livery stable. But Faulkner's concern was spiritual, not economic. His obsession was the region's deepest secret, what he called the curse on the land...
...game." The nicest thing anybody could say about the second day was that the wind was only 45 m.p.h. But somewhere along the way, Lema lost his humility. Normally one of the best wedge players in the game, he changed his tactics, switched to a No. 7 iron, and ran the ball up to the pin. At the turn, Lema was one under par, and he picked up another two strokes on the 312-yd. twelfth hole-driving the green from the tee, sinking a 30-ft. putt for an eagle 2. "They've got to come and catch...
Died. Maurice Thorez, 64, longtime French Communist chieftain, a coal miner turned professional revolutionary, who took control of the party as secretary general in 1934, ran it as a mirror of the Kremlin, slavishly devoted first to Stalin, then to Khrushchev, seeing it grow to nearly 1,000,000 members after World War II only to decline rapidly (current membership: 240,000) in the face of European prosperity, until, suffering from chronic ill health, he "elevated" himself to president last May, leaving everyday tactics to another man; of an apparent heart attack aboard a Russian ship traveling to Yalta...