Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Broadway show biz'll boast another bim-bam boff when this one gets to the Big City. Yessir, as every other Boston theatre expert has noted with his customary originality, the bells are ringing for Bells Are Ringing all over town...
...film bursts along by following a few days in the life of a rather active chanteuse (Silvano Pampanini) who climbs the rungs of the civil service hierarchy faster than anyone of the opposite sex has been able to climb. After seducing the prosecutor assigned to throw her out of town for risque performances she continues with an austere provincial judge, and then "The Minister" in Paris. These four leading parts are all neatly cast, as are the many juicy minor roles in which such European films abound. The judge's wife is a coy hippopotamus; his maid is a laughing...
Whittier, meanwhile, has been shaking hands up and down the halls of the State House and through every sizeable Massachusetts city and town. His unsuccessful 1954 opponant for re-election, James A. Burke of Hyde Park, charged then that Whittier was the "most expensive Lieutenant Governor the state has ever had. He has turned the office into a publicity mill," Burke said. And Dever, biting back at Whittier before a recent Truman testimonial dinner, said, "You have your Nixon on the national scale. We have our Whittier in Massachusetts. They are counterparts...
...people of Lacey, Miss, had reason to be proud of themselves and of their town. After a history stained by lynching and violence, they had acquired a new sheriff who was outspokenly determined to apply justice equally to blacks and whites. The leading politician, Kerney Woolbright, backed the sheriff's policy. So did Jason Hunt, the town's rich man. Even Bootlegger Jimmy Tallant was willing to accept this manifestation of the "new South"-provided his business was left alone...
Before he dies, Woolbright and Hunt have fled his side, the town has cried for his blood, and Lacey's Negroes have again heard the growls of the lynch mob. The brief reign of the "new South" in Lacey dies also, leaving the survivors with nothing more than bitter knowledge of failure. Author Spencer, who was born and raised in Carrollton, Miss. (pop. 475), has, like many Southern writers, a poet's sense of words. Unlike most, she brings a disciplined mind and an invigorating economy to her third novel. Time and again, an imaginative phrase pins...