Word: showing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Frans Hals has been called a wife-beater, a tosspot, a congenital bankrupt and an angel with a brush. The first three charges rest on the petty court records of Haarlem, Holland, the last on about 300 paintings scattered throughout the world. The court records show a sorry existence, the paintings a radiant one. Hals's life was both. He fathered 14 children, often went cold and hungry with his brood, died penniless (in 1666) at the age of 86. In good times he would march off to the club, being fond of music, beer and jolly company...
...small-time hotel and clubroom circuit has been around too long to toy with complacency. Edging into her late 30s, she wants desperately to move her career uptown to the Broadway stage. "I'd like dramatic singing parts," says she. "I'd like to do a show that has just one great song...
Half the ministers doubt that the value of the sacrament of Communion depends entirely upon the attitude of the participant, while less than 20% of the laymen show any uncertainty...
After all, explained Gary, it is not Bing before whom they want to strut their stuff. "There has been so much bad written about us that we all wanted to show people that we are not just four lazy fops hanging around Hollywood with too much money. We had to prove that at least some of us have talent...
Although employment figures did not show the effects of the steel strike, the Federal Reserve Board's industrial production index did. Some 100,000 workers were laid off in mines and railroads, and carloadings dropped to 532,304 cars, lowest for a comparable week in years. Last week the Steelworkers Union and others called a strike at Kennecott Copper Corp. and Magma Copper Co. that idled another 15,000 workers. As a result, industrial output declined 1% in July to 153% of the 1947-49 average, two points below the record June level of 155%. But activity in most...