Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...acreage allotments, or 2) 50% of parity with no acreage controls. From the House it goes to a joint conference committee which will have the task of working out a compromise between the House bill and an even costlier Senate bill. If President Eisenhower vetoes the conference version, the choice before wheat farmers will remain as it is under present law: 75% of parity with acreage allotments unchanged, or 50% with no acreage controls. And bad as that is, it is certainly better than anything the 86th Congress seems capable of producing...
...version is slangy, a bit hammy in spots, and not likely to strain the minds of readers. Highet hopes that it would have pleased Menander, "who loved people, like Shakespeare and Moliere. and so transformed Greek comedy from its original fantasy into reality...
...Perish on mah sword,' " mused a Colt-toting Texas lad, and it may be even funnier than he supposed. This week he and 27 other Texas students are due in London with what is likely to be the oddest U.S. export to Britain this year-an "adult western" version of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, produced by Howard Payne College (enrollment: 1,100), a Baptist school in Brownwood, west of Waco...
...that she never learned how to write properly in longhand, took two years to type out the saga of her youth, called it Early Havoc (Simon & Schuster; $3.95). Though some of it covers the same ground Sister traveled in her own autobiographical story, Gypsy,* which appeared in a musical version on Broadway last week (see THEATER), the book is a remarkable show-business document that might better be titled "How to Make Good in Spite of Mother, Men and Marathons...
...Young Philadelphias (Warner), the film version of a popular novel by Richard Powell, is a sort of updated Kitty Foyle that has lost its wit and is fumbling for a moral: social status isn't everything. As in Christopher Morley's 1939 bestseller, the story tells what happens when a Philadelphia girl (Diane Brewster) tries to go beyond her station on the well-known Main Line. She marries into one of the very best families, but on her wedding night discovers that the blue blood has run pathetically thin. Frightened and confused, she flies back to the arms...