Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when the present Chief Justice of the U.S. was eleven. Big Steel paid John W. Davis more than $100,000 last year to win the historic Steel Seizure case (Youngstown Sheet & Tube v. Sawyer). Davis' fee for taking segregation's side last week was more modest: a silver tea service, gift of the South Carolina legislature...
...silver-fox industry in Canada, whose sales dropped from $5,000,000 to $463,000 in 13 years, is trying to make a comeback. Breeders will soon kick off $75,000 campaign to popularize new styles, colors and name (probably Crystal...
...long ago and far away. Danish Novelist Annemarie Selinko's Désirée, a sentimental historical about the adventures of an early mistress of Napoleon, fought it out for first place for several months with a holdover from last year, Thomas Costain's The Silver Chalice. At the end, both were overhauled by a new edition of Lloyd Douglas' The Robe, which, boosted by the movie, recovered the top place on the list that it first won in 1943. With similar help from...
...Robe,* Lloyd C. Douglas Désirée, Annemarie Selinko The Silver Chalice, Thomas B. Costain Battle Cry, Leon Uris From Here to Eternity* James Jones Beyond This Place, A. J. Cronin
Madam, Will You Walk was the last play written by the late Sidney Howard (They Knew What They Wanted, The Silver Cord). It was groomed for Broadway in 1939 but closed out of town. Last week it became the first play offered by the Phoenix Theater, a professional, well-heeled repertory group that, to avoid Broadway costs, will produce on lower Second Avenue. The stars this time are Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn...