Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your March 22 "Flight to the Suburbs": if some people were lucky enough to be able to flee from the city with its dirt, noise, industry and screaming advertisements, it is sad that industry should be allowed to pursue them and intrude upon their hard-won right to privacy. An eternal cycle results, and families will have to begin anew the futile flight to territory not yet infested by industry. The rapid spreading of factories and stores through residential areas horrifies me and many other people who want to breathe fresh air in their free time...
...musicians: Arturo Toscanini, the greatest performing musician alive today, had retired. For almost a fortnight, his letter of resignation to RCA Board Chairman David Sarnoff had rested, unsigned, on his desk. Abruptly, on his 87th birthday, Toscanini made his decision, ran upstairs and signed it. Excerpt: "And now the sad time has come when I must reluctantly lay aside my baton and say goodbye to my orchestra ... I shall carry with me rich memories of these years of music making...
Cohn's snarl and Schine's lurking smirk qualify them for Madame Tussaud's . . . Sad, sad days are these, when Ike, Dulles, Wilson et al. hide while two juvenile delinquents such as these ride...
...parlor games because they are cheap. 20 Questions costs only a modest $3,500 a week. Quiz shows have no script cost, the same stage set can be used year in and year out, and the performers are far less expensive than big-name comedians or singers. But one sad discovery has tempered the networks' enthusiasm. Explains Robinson: "Except for the rare ones, quiz shows have a very definite audience ceiling...
...conclusion, Kikuta's present problem is how to wind up his show when it goes off the air next month. Forbidden by his employers, the Japan Broadcasting Corp., to reveal or even speculate on events to come, Kikuta will only say, "I should like to see a sad-happy ending." Radio listeners are predicting that 1) Haruki and Machiko will marry and she will then die in childbirth, or 2) Haruki and Machiko will both climb Mount Fuji and make a double suicide dive into the crater of the sacred volcano...