Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Then, Matt Botsford delivered the big blast of the day, unloading a long triple to center to score both Bergantino and Hastings. With Getch at the plate, Botsford romped home on a wild pitch. Getch then singled, stole second and came home with the fourth run on Stahura's solid double to center...
...which could compose a solid, bottom-of-the-barrel melodrama. The plot runs along smoothly, but is not better than most plots. The actors have choice lines much of the time, but they must also bring off some pretty shoddy writing: "kiss me Richard; kiss me as if it were the last time." The film is raised to the level of superlative, escapism entertainment because fine acting gives an indifferent story meaning beyond its worth; there are no second rate performances. Casablanca is an artificial world, where people who are not people are ideal though heroes, or murderers, or females...
...first-quarter sales hit $80 million, up 11 % from the same period last year. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camel, Winston, Salem) said that first-quarter earnings this year will be better than the $13,565,000 made in the same period in 1956. The Department of Agriculture gaye solid support to this optimism: it estimated that Americans are smoking 9% more than a year ago, and predicted that 1957 cigarette sales will top last year's 392 billion (171 packs for every American aged 15 or over), probably exceed the record 394 billion sold...
...registrations. France's Renault so far this year has sold 3,970 cars v. 2,910 in 1956, figures it will reach 20,000 for the year. Britain expects to sell 50,000 to 60,000 cars in the U.S. during 1957. It has solid ground for such optimism. January-February shipments of British cars to the U.S. reached a record 12,037 v. 3,506 in last year's first two months...
Author Smith (a father of two boys eleven and eight years old) is also pretty tired of such notations on his children's report cards as "gets along well with the group." He would like to see the return of solid rules of behavior which all kids, understood and appreciated. Instead, he finds children, his own included, Geselled and Spocked and Ilged to the point where "nothing but a jail term is going to convey disapproval." He even holds that what he learned about women from the Police Gazette was educational. And what is left of the child...