Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Very Special Baby (by Robert Alan Aurthur) refers to a 34-year-old man-the youngest child (whose mother died when he was born) in a large Italian-American family. At once babied and belittled by a rich, tyrannical, self-made father who resents him because of his mother's death, he has never found his feet. When at last there seems a chance he will, the father blocks the way, and there are agitated scenes before the son presumably escapes...
Happily, something extra-and even, in Michael Kidd's case, extra-special-is sometimes supplied. If the Dogpatchers can be dull when they walk, they are dazzling when they run. Choreographer Kidd's Sadie Hawkins Day ballet is a wonderful matrimonial chase in which Al Capp's womenfolk become amorous Keystone Cops. In the Visigothic descent of the Dogpatchers on General Bullmoose's formal ball, Kidd has created one of the memorable shambles scenes in Broadway history. And for the show's rousingest music, Jubilation T. Cornpone, Kidd has made a packed stageful of bodies...
Long under fire by editors for stifling news on the pretext of "security," the Defense Department last week issued a report by its own special committee on the problem. The most explosive recommendation: reporters should be summoned to "a grand jury investigation" to divulge their source in the case of any serious "leak" of information. This was so certain to infuriate the press that Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson pointedly tagged it with "serious reservations" as he released the report...
...have already fallen 40% behind demand. With the new orders, the shortage is so serious that Government maritime officials are talking about some sort of priority system to allocate supplies. The problem is that so many industries are pinched for supplies that the Office of Defense Mobilization fears that special treatment for shipbuilders will bring demands from many other vital industries, force the Government to institute a complete controlled-materials program such as the one in effect during the Korean...
Charity in a Taxi. County boards decide who gets the food on the basis of income or special need, and issue certification cards. But after the institutions and regular welfare recipients who automatically qualify, the definition of "needy" becomes surprisingly liberal. In Pennsylvania this year, free food worth $5,000,000 went to striking steelworkers. Drought and disaster areas also benefit from free Government food, and even counties that have had good crops for years share equally in the program with their less prosperous neighbors...