Word: sugar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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OVER lunch recently, a statistician in our promotion department numbered sugar cubes from one to seven, then shuffled them around. He estimated that the chance of correctly listing the new order of the numbered cubes would be roughly 1 in 5,000. By last week he would have had no trouble at all convincing the advertising specialists who competed in the fifth TIME Circulation Letter Sweepstakes...
...Abdias told Jose about a night in 1949. Abdias had robbed a drunken sugar planter of 700 cruzeiros and was wisely trying to get out of the vicinity. On a muddy path through a sugar field, a stealthy figure had crept up behind Abdias, struck him over the head and robbed him. When he awoke the next day, caked with blood and mud, Abdias had crept away, not daring to report the assault because of his own crime...
When Abdias' shock wore off, "murderer" and victim embraced, swore everlasting friendship, went arm in arm to see the warden. José told the astounded official what had happened, explained that a band of sugar workers had found him rifling the pockets of his unconscious victim and presumed Abdias dead. Turned over to local police and shunted from one backwoods station house to another, José, too, had thought the man dead, and had finally been convicted on the testimony of the sugar workers and his own confession despite the absence of a corpse. "This is highly irregular," murmured...
...some miracle of bad taste, the changes made in his text for the TV version managed to make the play even worse. O'Neill's final note stresses man's indomitable hope in the face of hopelessness. The TV version concluded with a happy ending, sugar-coating O'Neill's bitter pill...
...durable Hollywood screen lover (Mogambo, Soldier of Fortune); and Kay Williams Spreckels, 37, onetime model and Hollywood starlet turned socialite millionheiress; he for the fifth time (his most recent: British-born Sylvia Hawkes, onetime Lady Ashley, who divorced him in 1952), she for the fourth (her most recent: Sugar Heir Adolph Spreckels Jr., whom she divorced in 1952 after accusing him of beating her with her own slipper); in Minden...