Word: sam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps the kindest comment a reviewer could make about Sam and Bella Spewack's latest comedy is this: It is not up to their usual standards. Festival, however, is more than a disappointment in a season of surprisingly bad comedies, and any playgoer who hopes that it will compensate for assorted Tender Traps and Black-Eyed Susans will soon find that it ranks with the worst of them...
Porter is not the only disappointment of the evening. George S. Kaufman and wife have failed to do for Ninotchka what Sam Spewack and wife did for Taming of the Shrew. In the Kaufmans' version, propaganda and comedy are blended in the worst proportions. Near final curtain, when they decide that perhaps the audience is convinced that Paris is preferable to Siberia, the authors throw in a few old anti-anti-Communist jokes and call it a night...
...after 39 hours and 23 minutes of deliberation, they rejected both Sheppard's story ("fantastic") and the prosecution's picture of a deliberate murder. Sam Sheppard did not plan to kill his wife, they decided, but, once he began to beat her, he continued purposefully and maliciously until she was dead. The verdict: murder in the second degree. The penalty: life imprisonment, with parole possible in ten years. The handsome young osteopath rose stiffly in court for sentencing. Leaving, handcuffed, he glared angrily at the jury...
Privation. In The Pas, Manitoba, Cree Indian Sam Umperville, 82, oldest resident on The Pas Reservation, looked about the room he was assigned to in St. Anthony's Hospital, then stalked unceremoniously out the front door, explaining testily, "There's no place to spit...
...issues weighed last week would be formally laid before the Congress in the President's State of the Union message on Jan. 6, a date that Sam Rayburn, when Ike suggested it at the bipartisan conference, heartily seconded: Jan. 6 will be Mr. Sam's 73rd birthday. "Swell," said the President; maybe there would be a present for Sam in the speech...