Word: ratings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...harriers' toughest task will be to break up a knot of five Yale runners whose previous times rate them faster than anyone except Benjamin and Fitzgerald. "We're just going to have to put out more," says Assistant Coach Ed Stowell...
...charmer who tempts the hero, but it is the little snow pea his wise old father had chosen who gets him in the end. All this is unfolded in an atmosphere that varies between Mr. Hammerstein's old Norman Rockwell whole someness and a new, Broadway, meretriciousness of second-rate sick jokes and falsie gags. Mechandizing the cuteness of a whole covey of little children (including one with a hula hoop, who got a big hand) provides the authors with one of several opportunities to be wholesome and meretricious at the same time...
Untoward indeed would be the incidents resulting from the Coop's becoming a cut-rate liquor store. The dangers inherent in making large quantities of intoxicating beverages available to the masses is quite as obvious as the inadvisability of serving firewater to Indians. Uncouth and boorish fellows are partially restrained by the high prices set by the international liquor cartel and the tax policy of the Federal government. Anything done to disturb this delicate balance would unleash nightmares of drunkeness and debauchery such as are seldom seen, even in Cambridge...
Ella Clark and Amanda Mackay-Smith rate notice for the size of their parts as the other two sisters, but not for their accomplishments. Miss Clark, particularly, shows nothing but the efforts of a young actress trying hard. Richard Smithies, in the part of a philosophic army officer, plays Richard Smithies. He does this very well by now, but the characterization is becoming tiresome. As for the other performers, except for Elizabeth Fox, who is just about nasty enough as a snobbish young wife, the kindest thing which can be said is that they would profit from further experience...
September private housing starts, at 108,000, lifted the seasonally adjusted rate to 1,220,000, making last month the homebuilders' best September since 1955. Counting 10,000 public housing starts, it was the residential construction industry's best all-round September since 1950. Freight carloadings continued their five-week climb, rising 9,122 in the week to a new 1958 high of 686,138. Estimated steel production last week pushed to 73.6% of capacity, up from 71.6% during the week before...