Word: weddingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boxing (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS radio & TV). For the light heavyweight championship: Archie Moore v. Joey Maxim...
Philco Radio Playhouse (Wed. 9 p.m., ABC). Hear My Heart Speak, with Joseph Gotten, Kim Stanley...
Easy to Love (M-G-M), starring Esther Williams and Van Johnson, is not to be confused with an earlier picture of almost the same name, Easy to Wed, and another of almost the same plot, The Duchess of Idaho. In the first case, the difference between love and marriage should help in telling the pictures apart; in the second, the only real difference is that Idaho was shot in Sun Valley and Love in Florida's Cypress Gardens. All that matters, anyway, is that Mermaid Williams again wears a lockerful of sensational new bathing suits, and any moviegoer...
...Boxing (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). Ezzard Charles v. Coley Wallace...
Historian Jacques Barzun of Columbia University is one professor who does not mind getting from his window cleaner a note like this: "The windows have been cleaned Wed. 12:30 p.m. Your maid was their to veryfey the statement." That sort of thing, says Barzun in the Atlantic Monthly, may be bad writing, but it is nevertheless harmless. The real danger to language "does not come from such trifles. It comes rather from the college-bred millions who . . . circulate the prevailing mixture of jargon, cant, vogue words, and loose syntax that passes for prose." Barzun calls this "the infinite duplication...