Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...include a New Yorker article scheduled for the spring, about his winter in Moscow. He returned a second time after touring with the Porgy and Bess troupe and writing The Muses Are Heard account of it all. And he found life as a private citizen more congenial than the spot-lit existence of artists on tour...
What is more, top Cowlesmen think so much like their bosses that they get little direct supervision. Other than a formal meeting every month or so and occasional spot conferences, John leaves his eleven-man editorial-page staff pretty much alone. Des Moines rarely even bothers to check a stand with Mike. Instead, the staffs in both cities meet to hash out editorials, hear every man's views, try to reach a consensus, nearly always end up speaking in a Cowles tone of voice...
...Quare Fellow is Irish prison slang for a condemned man. Around the imminent hanging of such a man, who himself never appears on stage, Irish Playwright Brendan Behan, sometime I.R.A. man and jailbird (see SHOW BUSINESS), has set down a clearly on-the-spot account. As in that memoir of another Irish Prisoner-Playwright, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, The Quare Fellow records the atmosphere, the emotions, the tensions of convicts and gaolers as execution nears. But, in Behan's play, as atmospheric pressure mounts, the need for outlets intensifies. Voices are raised, and fists; a half-brutal, half...
Halfback: Billy Cannon, 21, Louisiana State; 6 ft. 1 in., 197 lbs. junior. Major: pre-dentistry. Still a year away from pro draft but already considered fast, powerful, brilliant enough to move into starting halfback spot on most any pro team...
...once, results followed form, and brought the New Year's Day Bowl picture into sharp focus. California edged past Stanford 16-15, to draw the unenviable Rose Bowl spot opposite Iowa. Louisiana State wiped out Tulane 62-0, accepted a bid to New Orleans' Sugar Bowl. Texas Christian dumped Rice 21-10, got the host spot in Dallas' Cotton Bowl. Syracuse had trouble beating West Virginia 15-12, was invited anyway to face Oklahoma in Miami's Orange Bowl. TIME...