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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brownwood, he was appalled to find that Shakespeare had not been presented there professionally for 40 years and not even by amateurs for 20 years. He promptly put the Bard and his students in the same corral. Instead of "a wood near Athens," Reeve's Dream is set on a Texas ranch in the 1880s, and the guitar-twanging players appear in Stetsons, bandannas and bustles (Hippolyta is an Indian princess in white buckskin). The dialogue is unchanged except by Texas tongues: "O naht! alack, alack, alack! Ah feah mah Thisby's promise is furgot...
...D.J.s were supposed to increase their holdings by gambling and by making frequent trips to the company's "Hospitality Suite" where they could obtain liquid refreshments plus 5,000 "dollars" for every visit. On Memorial Day, in exchange for the play money, RCA Victor auctioned off a stereo set, a color TV set, 500 real dollars worth of clothes, a trip for two to Europe, and a Studebaker Lark to the highest bidders-and the bidders by that time were high all right...
Coming two days before the deadline originally set by Nikita Khrushchev for the West to quit West Berlin, Springer's ceremony was particularly symbolic. "The fact that we lay this cornerstone today right at the edge of the sector boundary," said he, "is an expression of our fast faith in the historical unity of Germany...
...District Attorney Edward S. Silver called in the press for an advance briefing, with the understanding that the story would be held until the roundup began. But United Press International, which did not staff Silver's briefing, was told about the raid by a "responsible police official." who set the release date at 10 p.m. Out on the U.P.I, wire in time for 10 o'clock radio newscasts clacked word of Silver's sortie, a full two hours before the cops were due to swoop...
...Reid is the only visitor. He has written letters to their wives and mothers, once shipped a body back home to Indiana. He has twice saved men by persuading officials to reopen their cases, has been begged by longtime dwellers on death-house row to get their executions set ahead...