Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stanley Hoffman, Chairman of the Board of Tutors in the Government Department, said that requirements for approval hurt the popularity of course reduction. Several petitions have been turned down already, and "bad news always spreads," discouraging other aspirants. The approval rule is still retained under the new course reduction rules...
...Defiant Ones. Stanley Kramer's film about a Southern chain-gang escape; with Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier (TIME...
Died. R. (for Robert) Stanley Dollar, 78, canny, litigious shipping tycoon, of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Ontario-born Dollar went to work at 17 for his father, succeeded him in 1931 as head of the family shipping empire, but was forced out in 1938 when Dollar Steamship Lines defaulted on a $7,500,000 federal loan. After the war, Dollar undertook a seven-year court fight with the U.S. Government for control of the ships, finally settled in 1952 for $9,000,000, half the proceeds from a public sale of the 17-vessel line...
Died. Mary Roberts Rinehart, 82, genteel, hard-working novelist and mystery writer, whose 60 books (written over 46 years) sold more than 11 million copies; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Growing up in Allegheny, Pa., Mary Roberts studied to be a nurse, then married Surgeon Stanley Rinehart in 1896, bore three sons before she was 27. She wrote The Circular Staircase, first of her warmly human, quietly humorous mysteries, after a stock-market panic in 1903 threw the Rinehart family $12,000 in debt. When Staircase sold (1,250,000 copies so far), she went on writing, reached...
...situation may be unlikely penology and ponderous allegory, but it is dramatic as can be, and could have made for a memorable film. But our old friend Stanley Kramer got hold of this and decided to hit the great American public between the eyes. He made sure that every scene was underlined as firmly as possible. He managed, perhaps with difficulty, to secure Tony Curtis for the lead. While he did not spoil The Defiant Ones, he cheapened...