Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Walter F. White, Harvard-accented, quietly aggressive Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, was about to slow down at his doctor's request. Soon after he comes back from the Paris U.N. meeting (some time in November) he will quit work for a year's vacation...
...Manhattan, Joe Louis was having second thoughts. After he beat Jersey Joe Walcott in a slow-moving travesty last June, the aging (34) champ announced-to the relief of his fans and his mother-that he had fought his last fight. Now his agent, Sol Strauss, of the 20th Century Sporting Club, announced that Joe would defend his title for the 26th time next June -if the winner of the Joe Baksi-Ezzard Charles bout "comes through good." Said Joe's mother: "I feel awful...
...bachelor quarters are a treetop in Central Park-the first intimation that Heaven on Earth aims to be as cute as all hell. It gets colossally so when a roguish, broguish cabbie named James Aloysius McCarthy (Peter Lind Hayes) sets up as fairy godfather to the lovers. Slow-paced and ponderous, Heaven on Earth combines the elfin and the elephantine...
...Slow Going. But the Senators would find Little a hardheaded witness with a plausible story to tell. Little has never made a secret of his belief that Yankee workers no longer earn their high wages. When he bought eleven Southern mills (TIME, May 27, 1946), he said he found that his Southern workers' productivity was one-third higher than that of his New England crews. One reason was that Southern plants could be run on three shifts; most New Englanders refused to work night shifts. "When you can't work your plant three shifts a day," said Little...
...trouble with documentaries is basic: box office-minded theater exhibitors detest them. They have no name stars. If run on a double bill, they slow up the process of cramming customers into the theaters, and rushing them out again...