Word: seconder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With her second Broadway role, Anne Bancroft has given her answer-and upstaged her contemporaries. At the summit of the American theater, Julie Harris, Geraldine Page and Kim Stanley have a brilliant new competitor. Such names as Hayes, Cornell and Fontanne ring distant on the ear-echoes from another generation. "We've come to the end of gracious ladies in the theater," says Producer Harold S. (Fiorello!) Prince. "Why, I don't know. But this girl Bancroft is the greatest there is. She marks the beginning...
Annie is one of the countless hopefuls whom Hollywood could not appreciate, who came home after a broken marriage and 18 second-rate movies. But the corn grows even taller. Annie is also the girl who finally got a crack at Broadway and became the hottest ticket in town on her first try. And finally-most typical cliche of the times-she is the girl who is now trying to find herself in long, earnest hours of psychoanalysis...
Married. Teresa Wright, 40, actress of stage (The Dark at the Top of the Stairs), screen (The Best Years of Our Lives) and TV (The Miracle Worker); and Robert Anderson, 42, playwright (Tea and Sympathy; Silent Night, Lonely Night); both for the second time; in Los Angeles...
...ADVERTISING will come under closer watch by the FTC and the Justice Department. They have agreed to tighten prosecution against deceptive commercials in the food, drug and cosmetic fields. Convicted advertisers would face criminal penalties of up to $5,000 and six months in jail for a first offense. Second offenders would face a year in jail and a $10,000 fine...
...rebuilding of a major segment of Germany, and fought the Russian blockade of Berlin. Since he joined Continental in 1950, he has used the lessons of his military engineer's career to triple Continental's sales (to $1.1 billion) and earnings (to $41 million), drive it from second place, well behind American Can, into position as the big gest U.S. container company. Last week General Clay pulled off an important maneuver: he settled with the Steelworkers Union for a threeyear, 28.2?-an-hour package, thus averting a possible strike...