Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Slight, short (5 ft. 5 in.) Lou Stark won his name by covering such stories as the Sacco-Vanzetti case, the pitched battles in Harlan County, the sitdown strikes of the '303. Whatever he covered (typing out his copy hunt & peck, then checking and re-checking until his deadline-conscious editors squirmed uneasily), he won the confidence and respect of both sides without ever favoring either. When the accuracy of an exclusive Stark story about coal bargaining was questioned two years ago, Illinois' Paul Douglas said on the Senate floor: "I have never known Lou Stark to make...
Technically, Smith felt there were a few flaws. "There was some slight running of colors. When [Dodger Manager] Charley Dressen . . . stood on the bare base path . . . his white uniform was immaculate as a prom queen's gown. But the camera followed him as he returned to the coach's box beside third, and against this background of "turf he turned green, like cheap jewelry. Light blues ran a good deal too . . . when the camera swept the shirt-sleeved crowd one had the impression that all the customers had been laundered together with too much bluing in the water...
...drove his staff hard, drove himself harder. A good editor, said Raymond, needed "a constitution like the Wandering Jew's, a patience as inexhaustible as his frame, and a physical endurance equal to that of a victim of the Inquisition." His own 5 ft. 6 frame was slight, but he often worked twelve and 15 hours at a stretch, could keep writing even while listening to unrelated problems. "Get all of the news," he demanded. Much of it he got himself. He covered Napoleon Ill's war against Austria, and after the Civil War broke out, he turned...
Gabin is excellent as the man-about-town who becomes slowly aware that he is sinking into matrimonial quicksand. Nicole Courcel is completely convincing as the triumphant barmaid. Producer-Director Marcel (Children of Paradise) Carne paces the slight story, from one of Simenon's short novels, a little too slowly, but with a neat blending of decorative scenery and indecorous...
...softball league reaches the club-house turn of the season with the Linden Lions, the Malinckrodt Chemists, and Holworthy-Stoughton all battling for supremacy, the Linden squad holding the slight edge in percentage points...