Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bolivia's professorial President Victor Paz Estenssoro, struggling to rid his poverty-stricken nation of its longtime dependence on tin exports, signed a decree last week opening the way for foreign capital to come in and drill for oil. As the government's cut, the new Bolivian law demands 11% of the crude oil produced, plus 30% of net profits, plus a yearly concession tax of a few cents an acre...
While taking his ease at the bar of a Paris hotel, soft-spoken Playwright Tennessee (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) Williams was accosted by a reporter, pessimistically discussed his philosophy of dramatics. How much in today's stage plays or movies is really new? Replied Williams: "Everything has been said and resaid. I never write anything with the idea of putting any ideas into it, perhaps because I don't have any ideas. Mostly, I have a heart. I don't have any message any more." Do such beliefs lead to ambiguity in his work? Williams...
Reflections in a Private Eye. In Milwaukee, after getting into a saloon argument with another customer, Paul Mumford, 24, flashed a tin badge, shouted that he was about to call the patrol wagon, pulled a fire alarm instead, was fined $108 when ten fire trucks rushed to the scene...
Producer's Showcase offered up his tender Our Town in a musical version that preserved much of the quality of the original, only to drown its author's most eloquent asides in a droning of catchpenny lyrics by Tin Pan Alley's Sammy Cahn...
Ever since Freda Kirchwey bought the deep pink Nation in 1937, it has been almost constantly in the red. Publisher-Editor Kirchwey kept the weekly (circ. 32,726) going only by a constant begging campaign for contributions. Last week, weary of rattling the tin cup, Freda Kirchwey stepped out of her job. "I want to do some traveling and some writing," she said, "without the burdens...