Word: raying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bill. While they feel that the mergers probably have not caused any lessening of competition, they fear that some of the huge banks are now in a position where they might be able to squeeze competitors if they wish. On the other hand, Comptroller of the Currency Ray M. Gidney last week strongly supported mergers. The mergers, he said, have created a "banking system better able to serve the communities affected...
...them to bed. The program companies have made an unwritten agreement to limit U.S. imports to 25% of the week's programming. But arrangements have already been made to acquaint Britons with I Love Lucy (scheduled to compete with BBC's prize variety hour, The Ted Ray Show), Dragnet, Hopalong Cassidy, Ed Murrow's Person to Person, and Billy Graham. Last fortnight the contracts were signed for the import of Liberace, complete with candelabra and toothy smile. But many of the home-grown products will bear a resemblance to U.S. shows. Example: Sunday Night at the Palladium...
Cornell Borchers and Armin Dahlen are excellent as the bread parents. So is the blood mother, Yvonne Mitchell, who carries the memory of the concentration camp in her brooding face. The ten-year-old boy is Michel Ray, who comes off as a fine trouper...
...Ray proves to be a mean little stinker who kills puppy dogs, and his daughter Thelma a snobbish, touch-me-not icicle who is ashamed of her father and mother and their back-country ways...
...Ray grows up to be a spiv and live with a prostitute. Thelma grows up to marry an aging lawyer and develop arty airs at musicales. Stan's bitter cup is not full, however, until Amy. in a climacteric crisis, commits adultery with a red-haired traveling salesman. A tongue-tied Lear, Stan buries his sorrow in a drunken, big-city binge, winds up lying among empty crates in a side-street lot and spits at the "paper sky, quite flat, and white, and Godless...