Word: sam
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...life story of a prostitute. In her older years she is Ruth Gordon (her first Broadway appearance since The Matchmaker); in her younger years she is Diane Cilento. Both are onstage much of the time, the old whore passing comment on the young. Among her lovers and clients: Sam Levene, Ernest Truex. The play was favorably received in Philadelphia by two out of four reviewers. The News, whose regular critic was barred from the theater by Producer David ("The Abominable Showman") Merrick for being five minutes late, called it "an indigestible mixture of sex and booze, sex and gambling...
...vote standoff, effectively neutralizing the Wisconsin delegation to the national convention. Said State Chairman Patrick J. Lucey, a not-so-secret Kennedy supporter: "The change can only be interpreted as an attempt to benefit the candidate of those proposing the formula." Sponsor of the new rules: Committeeman Sam Rizzo, ex-United Auto Workers official and chairman of Humphrey's Wisconsin campaign...
Many an analyst thought the market might drift down another 15 or 20 points before finding the base for its next rise simply because, said Sam Stedman, partner in Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades & Co., many stocks at their recent highs were overpriced in terms of immediate earnings. To Stedman, the caution was a good sign. "I don't like it when everyone thinks that all the market...
...been doing pretty well in recent years, needs this sort of propaganda the way it needs a hole in the safe. And foreign countries, in which this film will be widely shown, may not take too kindly to the thesis-especially when it is propounded by their wealthy Uncle Sam-that the worth of a man can be measured by what he is worth...
...series, The Private Papers of James Boswell (seven published, eight or ten to come) opens in 1769, when Boswell is a fast-rising, 29-year-old Edinburgh lawyer. Thanks to his bestselling book, The Account of Corsica, he is also a writer perhaps better known on the Continent than Sam Johnson himself. Bozzy's vagarious search for a wife, described in the previous volume, has succeeded, and for the moment at least he is well-behaved. When he visits London in 1772 without his wife, he is tempted by "a variety of fine girls, genteelly dressed, all wearing Venus...