Word: ratings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...later he observes lugubriously, "You have just given me the greatest sorrow of my life." Of course the daughter has not selected just anybody to perform the act of darkness with, and we are treated to the unveiling of the structure of interlocking copulations which is usual in second-rate French drama. We also get a good helping of the sort of dialogue that too often accompanies it: "Forgive me for being so intimate with your husband...Can you imagine, there was a time when I was mad about your husband. Absolutely...
...rate, the "renaissance" was well under way. The HDC reached its post-War peak in the spring of 1956 with its Sanders arena production of Miller's Death of a Salesman. This was an absolutely top-notch show of extraordinary depth and polish--fully the equal of any professional production the play has ever...
...Defiant Ones would have been better in the hands of Kazan or Houston, but it does not turn out badly under Kramer's administration. And it will not, at any rate, wow them in Mobile...
...William Fife Knowland had to have a pamphlet too. At least his well-meaning wife, Helen, thought so. So she distributed some 500 copies of a 30-page diatribe against A.F.L.-C.I.O. Vice President Walter Reuther, Meet the Man Who Plans to Rule America. Then she asked about the rate for 10,000 more pamphlets, writing Author Joseph P. Kamp that his was "a powerful message which could actually swing the pendulum in California if it could be gotten into the hands of millions of people...
...first-rate Army Air Forces pilot in World War II-he was one of ten in the ferry command who volunteered to ferry P-475 across the Atlantic, later flew The Hump from India to China-he came home to head a reform slate to clean up Phoenix's city government. He earned such public acclaim for doing just that-and cutting taxes to boot-that in 1952 he felt sassy enough to tackle Democratic Senator Ernest W. McFarland, Harry Truman's majority leader. Homespun Ernie scarcely deigned to notice this lively upstart. But in the Eisenhower landslide...