Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...itself two chances to win by alternating a tale about the decline of domestic happiness in the U.S. with a succession of vaudeville acts. Between variety turns featuring magicians, quartettes, octets, horrifyingly clever children, crooners and mock madrigal singers, Love Life chronicles the marriage of Sam and Susan Cooper (Ray Middleton & Nanette Fabray) from 1791 to the present. The Coopers are a couple who never grow older, but the Cooper union is one that constantly grows worse. Love Life's argument is that steam, speed, materialism and greed have slowly wrecked connubiality. (It might be retorted that even allegorical...
...show has its very real assets: Nanette Fabray who, without losing one whit of her looks, keeps gaining in versatility and charm; and Ray Middleton, who has both voice and personality. It has some admirably lively and stylish Michael Kidd dances. It has one of Kurt Weill's most attractive scores, ranging from satiric little ditties like Progress to the full-throated tunefulness of Green-Up Time...
Sick Fledgling. Nevertheless, it took stern measures on President Connelly's part to put Southwest in the black. Like most fledglings, Southwest started out top-heavy with vice presidents, quickly lost money. When Jim Ray, the first boss, quit, Jack Connelly moved in with a meat-ax. He trimmed out most of the top brass, made the survivors double in it. Southwest's only remaining vice president, Operations Chief Ted Mitchell, flies 25 hours a month as a pilot and all pilots refuel their own planes...
Four years ago, the Rockefeller Foundation's President Ray Fosdick persuaded Freeman that he was just the man to do a long-needed job-the definitive biography of Washington. Fosdick offered him Rockefeller money for the research, but Freeman refused because he was a trustee of the foundation. So Fosdick got the Carnegie Corporation to put up the cash. The cost so far: $23,000. For Freeman it meant ditching his plan to write a history of the Union's Army of the Potomac, something he no longer regrets because "There is so much ugliness in the history...
...Crimson lineup: Bunce, le; Holbrook, it; Moulla, lg; Frothingham, c; Gordon, rg; Raverby, rt; Brooke, re; Burke and Lowenstein, qb; Walsh, lhb; Ossman, rhb; Ray...