Word: shadowings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pendergast machine out of the City Hall in 1940, has been busily reforming Kansas City ever since. But in his winning (by a 2-to-1 vote) effort, H. Roe Bartle also had the endorsement of the Pendergast organization, now led by James Pendergast, the nephew and pale shadow of old Tom-who did not favor Boy Scout leaders for public office...
...regular organization." Up popped handsome Richard Graves,, defeated Democratic candidate for governor last year, who proceeded to insult Butler to his face while 1,000 delegates cheered. The party leadership, he snapped, "must earn its right to lead." Graves thereupon analyzed Democratic troubles. "We have stood in the long shadow of Roosevelt and Truman," he cried, and apparently "can only win when people are hungry. We must be able to win in time of prosperity. We must be a party of principle and program-and that we have not been. We cannot do it by this form of political cannibalism...
...Goody ear-Philco Playhouse scored a near miss with a literate, well-cast play called Shadow of the Champ. On a transatlantic voyage, Broadway's Lee Grant, the disenchanted sister of a sportswriter, is thrown together with Eli Wallach, the boyhood chum and adult hanger-on of the heavyweight champion of the world (Jack Warden), and slowly draws him away from his lifelong shadow-like attachment to the champ. Scene after scene was nicely drawn, particularly those sketching the almost Oriental retinue that trails after a champion boxer, but the play as a whole failed to carry conviction...
...Globetrotters used to have a strangle-hold on all the good Negro basketball players, but the example of Clifton may provide a shadow of the future. He used to be a Globetrotter, but now is a regular in the NBA. The two Negroes on the All-Stars, Aruelle and Ed Fleming, both will be grabbed by the NBA, not the Globetrotters. The material is thinning and Monday's game may have been a sign of bad times to come for the illustrious Globetrotters...
...Video Theater (Thurs. 10 p.m., NBC). Frank Lovejoy in Shadow of a Doubt...