Word: suites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old Coya Knutson might have expected. Her vacillating husband, who supported her opponent in September's primary but threw his weight behind Democrat Coya before her defeat in last week's election (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), was bringing a $200,000 alienation-of-affections and slander suit against Billy Kjeldahl, 30, the lady's administrative assistant. Billy had not only "interfered" with his marital rights, charged 50-year-old Innkeeper Andy; he had also called the plaintiff "an impotent old alcoholic...
...spread beyond the earth. "There is no reason to suppose that life, and man as its representative, will not transform any planet on which he lands, in the same way, or even in a more profound way than he has transformed the surface of the earth. It might suit him to change the orbit of the moon, and it seems within the realm of possibility that he should be able to do so. When we realize that other organisms may be doing similar things at some millions of regions in the universe, we see that life itself...
...this point, the Terriers simply fell apart and the varsity goals poured in. Tuckerman followed Khan with two quick goals and Blodgett and Barry Russman followed suit to give the varsity its highest score of the year...
...Suit (by Albert Beich and William H. Wright; based on Edwin Code's novel) originally wore it to a costume party. Normally a man with a mouse manner, he works in his wife's family bank and quails before the Babbitts and snobs and stuffed shirts in his wife's family. Then, all at once, he takes to wearing the dog suit as he chooses and begins to act out his daydreams. One time he bites a lady, another time a banker; he scandalizes the depositors, horrifies the in-laws he hates, disturbs the wife he loves...
...stage piece. The Man in the Dog Suit is not without virtues. Hume Cronyn brings to the title role the sort of skill that can dramatize a problem and humanize a scene, and Jessica Tandy is engaging as the wife. Some of their scenes together flash with intensity as well as theater; Carmen Mathews has a funny interlude as a drunk; scattered moments are touching or sharp. But the man in the dog suit is the same man who has wooed conformity to win security, who has shaken with fright and then shaken himself free, in a dozen earlier tales...