Word: sam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...businessmen and politicians in Rio had speculated endlessly on the probable diagnoses, the possible cures. Some had hopefully regarded "los Abbinks" as advance agents of the U.S. Treasury. Last week, when the U.S. State Department finally published a summary of the report, the optimists got a rude jolt. Uncle Sam's voice was more like that of a Dutch uncle whose main message was: do it yourself-and this...
Script (circ. 27,000), the West Coast imitation of The New Yorker, had almost written "The End" last Christmas, when the magazine's backers (including Moviemaker Sam Goldwyn and General Manager Bob Smith of the Los Angeles Daily News) pulled out. Publisher Ik Shuman, once an editor of The New Yorker, bought the monthly from them for $1, and tried to keep it going. But production costs were too high, and revenue too low. Last week Shuman sadly put the final issue to bed. Then he called his creditors together to write a P.S. to Script. Debts...
Defense--first string: Don Page, a varsity midfielder last year; Captain Bob Forsyth; and Dick Hansen, of the Freshmen. Second string: Sam Laurence and Ed Carroll, from last year; and John Talbot, a member of the '51 team...
...Westfall, of Dunster, and Sam Clapp, Eliot, waged a spectacular battle, Westfall pinning his opponent with a back-bar arm one second before the end of the match...
...well with his fellow actors, and was wretchedly sensitive to their gibes about his vanity. Garrick was indeed terribly vain-how could he help it? He had been praised enough to turn a man clear out of his mind. "More pains have been taken to spoil the fellow," said Sam Johnson, "than if he had been heir-apparent to the Emperor of India...