Word: subbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year-old conviction of Peter Seeger '40 for contempt of Congress was unanimously dismissed by the U.S. Court of Appeals in New York Friday. Seeger was indicated for refusal to answer questions in a hearing conducted by a sub-committee of the House Un-American Activities Committee...
...court held the indictment was defective because it failed to properly state the sub-committee's authority...
This musical comedy is set in pagan Rome and is lewdly adapted from the plays of Plautus, who should really have been named Sub-Plautus. He was a genius at inventing endless slapsticky plot complications. The story is that Pseudolus (Zero Mostel), a slave, will be granted his freedom if he can secure as his master's bride a dumb blonde virgin (Preshy Marker) who has completed her basic training as a courtesan. After a dilatory start, George Abbott's pell-mell direction crosscuts from the chaste to the chase. Pseudolus must foil all the males...
...major disappointment for New York so far this season has been the sub-par performance of right-hander Bill Stafford. Despite a winning (3-2) record, Stafford has been hit hard, has not yet regained his control of last year, and has a 5.51 ERA. Whitey Ford (3-2) and Ralph Terry (4-3) have not been outstanding, and Luis Arroyo, an indispensable man last year, is 0 and 2 and has been injured since April...
...CRIMSON ad for Mr. Ooze advised one not to waste 40 cents on a cheap novel. Well, even setting aside the sub-freezing temperatures under that wretched dome, the alternative the ad offers is no bargain. Mr. Ooze is pretty much of a primordial mess...