Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With Lynn Fontaine in the title role, the play ran on Broadway for months, and "Dulcy" became a household word. But tastes and standards change, and the play today is little more than a feather-weight farce and a historical curiosity...
...census figures in calculating current crime rates for individual cities, which distorts the picture to the extent that the population of those cities has changed since 1950. Also, in calculating the rates, you grouped together in one figure all reported offenses giving, in effect, equal weight statistically to larceny and murder, and larceny offenses generally comprise over half of the total...
...magazine, and scraped together $ 1,000 to start it. Their complaint: "Laden with terms like 'architectonic,' 'Zeitgeist' and 'dichotomous,' the literary magazines seem today on the verge of doing away with literature, not with any philistine bludgeon, but by smothering it under the weight of learned chatter." The Review "put criticism where we thought it belonged: in the back of the book," says Plimpton...
Born. To Martha Wright, 32, pert CBS singer and disk jockey, holder of the record number of Broadway performances (1,047) as Nurse Nellie Forbush in South Pacific, and Manhattan Restaurant Owner Mike Manuche, 37: their second child, second son; in Manhattan. Name: Patrick Gregory. Weight...
...enormous weight of statistical evidence linking lung cancer with heavy smoking can no longer be refuted. A majority of manufacturers either oppose or ignore the problem." These words were spoken last week, not by a scientist or antismoking crusader, but by Patrick O'Neil-Dunne, 50, technical director of Rothmans of Pall Mall, British cigarette maker. A Rothmans press release was even stronger: "The link has been established beyond all reasonable doubt...