Word: west
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Leach, 72, perhaps the most renowned potter living, would certainly have won a prize if England's entries had not arrived late and missed the judging. A onetime partner of the great potter Hamada, Leach was trained in Japan, considers himself a "sort of courier between East and West." His bottles in the exhibition came from his Cornwall studio, but, he says, "both show early Chinese influence. The pattern of the tall one was combed or scratched on. For my smaller bottle I used a red which is considered impossible-a new color." ¶James Sheldon Carey, 47, keeps...
...reputation. He raised the minimum wage at Cannon Mills (effective Feb. 13) to $1.25 an hour, up from the company's present starting pay of $1.12. Those of his 24,000 employees now earning above the old minimum get 10? an hour more. Scores of mills ranging from West Point (Ga.) Manufacturing Co. to Avondale Mills in Alabama announced that they too were raising wages. By week's end pay raises had been promised to 100,000 textile workers, and textilemen predicted increases would sweep the entire industry by summer...
...Hanging Tree (Baroda; Warner), another "psychological western," is based on the rather odd premise that the American West was won on the consulting couches of Vienna...
...Fair Lady, with inimitable charm, The Music Man, with glorious corn, and West Side Story, with riotous drama, add up to a memorable trio of musicals...
...idea that even Maverick's satiric creators might envy: Danny Thomas, as an immigrant tailor in the Old West, stands the taunts of the town nasties as long as he can and then swaps his pressin' iron for the shootin' kind...